When young people are not very well acquainted, play this game, and by
the time that it is finished every one will think he must have known
everybody else for the last seven years.
Place chairs so as to form a ring, and ask your friends to be seated.
Then have a pack of say, authors’ cards in your hand, state that every
one must say what you say, and give what you give to his left-hand
neighbor. Then lifting up the top card in the pack, you say to your
guest at your left, “Here’s my card, Longfellow.” The one who receives
it instantly turns to the party at his left and, giving the card,
repeats the same words, “Here’s my card, Longfellow.” The next card
follows at once in the same manner, repeating whatever its portrait,
may be, and so card follows card without a second’s delay, and the
laughter and fun that is made causes even the dullest person in the
room to wake up and be hale fellow for the next entertainment. Should
any card drop, let it go. There will not be enough time to pick it up
until the game is ended.