This game needs two persons.
Stand at a distance from your confederate who will ask, “Molly, do you
hear?” and who will keep up asking the question until some one speaks.
Then Molly says she hears and leaves the room.
No sooner out, than her confederate will explain to the company, “I
shall hand some one in this room a button, and I shall then ask Molly
to tell me who has it.” Having thus explained, he hands the button to
the individual who spoke just before Molly left the room. Then the
confederate calls, “Molly, who has the button?”
At once Molly replies correctly. The key is very simple, being only to
remember the person who spoke as she left the room.
The game when played with a boy, should have the word Johnny
substituted for Molly.