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Title: Games For All Occasions

Author: Mary E. Blain

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Language: English

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GAMES FOR ALL OCCASIONS

BY
MARY E. BLAIN

CHICAGO
BREWER, BARSE & CO.

Copyright, 1909
By Brewer, Barse & Co.

PREFACE

"A Merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance."

The desire to play and frolic seems to be a heritage of mankind. In
infancy and early childhood this joy and exuberance of spirit is given
full sway. In youth, that effervescent stage of human existence, "joy is
unconfined." But in middle age and later life we are prone to stifle
this wholesome atmosphere of happiness, with care and worry and perhaps,
when a vexed or worried feeling has been allowed to control us, even
forbid the children to play at that time. Why not reverse things and
drown care and strife in the well-spring of joy given and received by
reviving the latent spark of childhood and youth; joining in their
pleasures passively or actively and being one of them at heart. So
presuming that "men are but children of a larger growth," the games,
pastimes and entertainments described herewith were collected,
remembered and originated respectively with the view of pleasing all of
the children, from the tiny tot to, and including the "grown-up," each
according to their age and temperament.

M. E. B.

GAMES FOR TINY TOTS

A RUNNING MAZE

Form a long line of children--one behind the other. The leader starts
runni