For this game you require a white sheet to be hung up at the end of
the room. Then the "shadow-makers" take up their places on low stools
behind the sheet. There must be only one lamp in the room, which
should be placed about six or seven feet behind the "shadow-makers."
Then the "shadow-makers" drape themselves with shawls, or anything
handy, and take their places so that their shadows are thrown upon the
sheet. They must, of course, try to disguise themselves, so that the
"shadow-seekers" may not be able to guess their identity. By loosening
the hair and letting it fall over the face, a girl may appear like a
man with a beard; bending the finger over the nose gives one a very
queer-looking hooked nose in the shadow, and entirely alters the
appearance of the face. Covering one's self up in a sheet and then
extending the arms gives one the appearance of a large bat. As soon as
a "shadow-maker's" identity has been guessed he must take his place
as a "shadow-seeker," and the one who guessed him becomes a
"shadow-maker." The penalty of a glance behind the sheet on the part
of the "shadow-seeker" is to pay a forfeit.
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