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Title: What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes

Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Release Date: February 4, 2010 [EBook #31186]

Language: English

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WHAT SHALL WE DO NOW?

[Illustration: A PUEBLO SETTLEMENT
(_Frontispiece_)]

WHAT SHALL WE DO NOW?

_Five Hundred Games and Pastimes_

A BOOK OF SUGGESTIONS FOR
CHILDREN'S GAMES AND
EMPLOYMENTS

BY

DOROTHY CANFIELD
AND OTHERS

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1907, by
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
_October_, 1907
_All rights reserved_

PREFACE

This book has been made in the hope that the question which forms its
title, "What shall we do now?" may come to be put less frequently. It
is so easy for children to ask it, so hard for grown-up persons with
many other matters to think about to reply to it satisfactorily.

In the following pages, which have something to say concerning most of
the situations in which children find themselves, at home or in the
country, out of doors or in, alone or in company, a variety of answers
will be found. No subject can be said to be exhausted; but the book is
perhaps large enough. Everything which it contains has been indexed so
clearly that a reader ought to be able to