with
legislators; was widely known outside of his native country,
and has been the subject of many biographies."

As this description would apply equally to Washington, Lincoln,
Gladstone, and several others who might be mentioned, there is
opportunity for considerable guessing before the right character be
found.

TIDBITS FARMER (THE)

_5 to 30 players._

_House party._

Each player should be given a card or slip of paper on which the
following verses are written, the last of each line being left blank.
The game consists in filling in the blank spaces each with a double
letter of the alphabet, as indicated in parentheses. The player wins
who has the largest number correct.

There is a farmer who is (YY)
Enough to take his (EE)
And study nature with his (II)
And think on what he (CC)

He hears the chatter of the (JJ)
As they each other (TT)
And sees that when a tree de (KK)
It makes a home for (BB)

A yoke of oxen will he (UU)
With many haws and (GG)
And their mistakes he will ex (QQ)
When plowing for his (PP)

He little buys but much he se (LL)
And therefore little (OO)
And when he hoes his soil spe (LL)
He also soils his h (OO)

TIP TAP TOE

_2 to 8 players._

_Indoors; out of doors._

INDOORS.--A circle is drawn on a slate or paper, the size of it
varying with the number of players, a larger circle being desirable
for a large number of players. This circle is intersected with
straight lines, so that it is divided into a series of wedge-shaped
spaces, the number of lines and spaces being also at the discretion of
the players, the larger the number of players the larger the number of
spaces desirable and the greater the variation in scoring. In each of
these spaces numbers are written in consecutive order, one for each
space, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., or the numbers may be done in multiples of
five,--5, 10, 15, 20, etc. The players take turns in rotation. The one
whose turn it is shuts his eyes, takes a pencil, circles it around
over the diagram while he says the following verse:--

"Tip, tap, toe, here we go,
Three jolly sailor boys all in a row."

At the close of the verse the player places the point of the pencil on
the diagram, still with his eyes closed. He then opens his e