Now that the evenings are growing long, some of you may like to hear of
a pleasant way of passing them. In capping verses, every one at the
table around which the players sit is supplied with a sheet of paper and
a pencil, and at the top of the paper is written by each player a line
of poetry, either original or from memory. The paper must then be folded
down so as to conceal what has been written, and passed on to the right;
at the same time the neighbor to whom it is passed must be told what is
the last word written in the concealed line. Every one must then write
under the folded paper a line to rhyme with the line above, being
ignorant, of course, of what it is. Thus the game is carried on until
the papers have gone once or twice around the circle, when they may be
opened and read aloud.