        item: #1 of 24
          id: 10717
      author: Pindar
       title: The Extant Odes of Pindar Translated with Introduction and Short Notes by Ernest Myers
        date: None
       words: 52591
      flesch: 75
     summary: And Pisa bids me speak aloud, for from her come to men songs of divine assignment, when the just judge of games the Aitolian[2] man, fulfilling Herakles' behests of old, hath laid upon one's hair above his brows pale-gleaming glory of olive. For in the hands of good men lieth the good piloting of the cities wherein their fathers ruled.
    keywords: aigina; apollo; chariot; city; death; deeds; earth; fair; father; footnote; forth; games; glory; god; gods; golden; good; great; greek; hand; hath; heart; herakles; home; honour; house; king; land; life; light; man; men; mother; ode; pindar; place; praise; race; sea; son; song; sons; soul; sung; thebes; thee; things; thou; thy; time; victory; war; winner; won; words; zeus
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        item: #2 of 24
          id: 11062
      author: Hughes, Rupert
       title: The Dozen from Lakerim
        date: None
       words: 49638
      flesch: 76
     summary: At first it looked like a huge joke for the high-and-mighty Kingston basket-ball team to be challenged by a team from the Palatine Deaf-and-Dumb Institute; then it began to look like an insult, and they were angry at such treatment of such great men as they admitted themselves to be. But I want to say right here that you have got to play like Lakerim men or there is going to be trouble.
    keywords: academy; away; b.j; ball; base; bobbles; club; crows; dozen; feet; fire; game; good; half; hands; head; history; home; ice; jumbo; kingston; lakerim; lakerimmers; man; men; pretty; quiz; reddy; right; room; run; saw; second; sleepy; team; thought; time; tug; twins; ware; way
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        item: #3 of 24
          id: 13022
      author: Squareman, Clarence
       title: My Book of Indoor Games
        date: None
       words: 34774
      flesch: 90
     summary: First player of each row has a piece of chalk. When tightly wound, last player should lead, all turn about to left and wind up, circling to right.
    keywords: answer; card; children; circle; company; game; hand; illustration; left; man; number; paper; person; place; player; right; ring; room; round; seat; second; time; turn; way; word
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        item: #4 of 24
          id: 13031
      author: Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham)
       title: Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs
        date: None
       words: 31711
      flesch: 82
     summary: The form of ball game where the racket is used was less widely distributed over the country than some others. Indian games that depend upon chance, according to Dr. Culin, may be divided into those in which the hazard depends upon the random fall of certain implements employed, like dice, and those in which it depends upon the guess or choice of the player; one is objective, the other subjective.
    keywords: ball; circle; come; corn; dance; dancers; east; field; following; game; green; hand; hoop; indian; life; line; man; mat; music; omaha; place; players; singing; song; stand; time; tribes
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        item: #5 of 24
          id: 16316
      author: Miller, Claude Harris
       title: Outdoor Sports and Games
        date: None
       words: 83095
      flesch: 80
     summary: This play is very common in ball games, and as there is only a difference of an instant in the time that it takes a runner to go from first base to second, who starts just as the pitcher delivers the ball, and the time it takes a pitched ball to be caught by the catcher and snapped to second, a game may be won or lost just on this play alone. In hockey, as in many other games, the whole object is to drive the puck into your opponents' goal and to prevent them from driving it into yours.
    keywords: ball; baseball; beginner; birds; boy; boys; camp; care; country; course; court; day; distance; dog; eggs; end; feet; field; fire; fish; fishing; football; game; general; goal; good; ground; gun; half; hand; home; horse; illustration; inches; kind; left; life; line; man; means; men; nature; number; people; piece; place; play; players; points; position; practice; right; rules; run; score; scout; shot; team; tennis; tent; things; time; tree; use; water; way; woods; work
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        item: #6 of 24
          id: 16599
      author: Draper, George Orrin
       title: School, Church, and Home Games
        date: None
       words: 43613
      flesch: 82
     summary: Team A players endeavor to catch the sack and if successful, that player succeeding advances three paces towards team B's goal line and slings the sack as before. As the game continues, and other players succeed in finding the hiding place, the number of hiding players continues to increase until they are packed in like sardines, hence the name.
    keywords: aisle; ball; base line; circle; distance line; end; feet; game; group; hand; leader; left; line; man; member; number; object; place; player; position; pupils; race; right; room; seat; second; signal; tag; team; wins; word
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        item: #7 of 24
          id: 30861
      author: Pierce, Paul
       title: Breakfasts and Teas: Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions
        date: None
       words: 21507
      flesch: 81
     summary: At the afternoon tea guests may come and go in street toilet, with or without a carriage in accordance with preference and pocketbook. Then if the hostess has even a bit of a garden, a bell rung out under the trees calls the merry throng to partake of old-fashioned high tea at little tables set where the afternoon shadows slant restfully, and with the birds' music about, the charm of out-of-doors will add flavor to the dainties.
    keywords: bread; breakfast; butter; cake; center; coffee; color; course; cream; cut; flowers; fruit; green; guests; half; hostess; ice; little; menu; paper; pink; place; plant; red; room; rose; salad; sandwiches; silver; sugar; table; tea; use; water; white; woman
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        item: #8 of 24
          id: 31186
      author: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
       title: What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes
        date: None
       words: 92939
      flesch: 83
     summary: It is not that they are not good games, but that, having to be bought, their rules do not need enumerating again. And among other good stories are-- Fairy Tales By Alexandre Dumas.
    keywords: 4to; animals; ball; birds; book; box; boys; cardboard; cards; case; chair; children; circle; cloth; color; company; country; course; cut; day; dog; dogs; dolls; end; family; fig; flowers; fun; game; garden; good; great; half; hands; home; house; illustrated; illustration; inches; left; line; making; man; middle; miss; need; number; paper; people; person; pictures; piece; place; plants; player; right; ring; room; round; run; stand; stick; stories; story; table; thing; time; turn; water; way; white; wool; word; | |
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        item: #9 of 24
          id: 33975
      author: Pierce, Paul
       title: Suppers: Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions
        date: None
       words: 22459
      flesch: 81
     summary: Dill pickles are popular for chafing dish suppers, and so are wienerwursts, rye bread and Swiss cheese. Smoking hot roasted oysters, jellied tongue with chopped pickle served in Spanish peppers, little hot rolls in form of balls, a plain tomato salad and slices of delicious home-made pies are among the good things of the menu. BIRTHDAY SUPPER.
    keywords: bread; butter; cake; center; chafing; chafing dish; cheese; chicken; coffee; cold; course; cream; cup; cut; dish; dishes; green; guests; half; hostess; ice; leaves; man; nut; paper; party; pie; place; pumpkin; red; room; salad; salt; sandwiches; sugar; supper; table; time; toast; use; white
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        item: #10 of 24
          id: 3690
      author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
       title: Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars"
        date: None
       words: 6870
      flesch: 73
     summary: With the larger ones we make islands and archipelagos on our floor while the floor is a sea, or we make a large island or a couple on the Venice pattern, or we pile the smaller on the larger to make hills when the floor is a level plain, or they roof in railway stations or serve as bridges, in such manner as I will presently illustrate. I have now given two general types of floor game; but these are only just two samples of delightful and imagination-stirring variations that can be contrived out of the toys I have described.
    keywords: boards; bricks; floor; game; island; railway; red; right; soldiers; station; town; trees
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        item: #11 of 24
          id: 37165
      author: Bates, Loïs
       title: Games Without Music for Children
        date: None
       words: 13219
      flesch: 94
     summary: [_children run to her_]. When he has returned, all the children say: Little children, always run When your mother's voice is heard, Leave your play whene'er she calls Quickly mind her every word.
    keywords: children; day; game; hands; house; left; little; mother; right; ring; round; | |
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        item: #12 of 24
          id: 38977
      author: Nesbit, E. (Edith)
       title: Wings and the Child; Or, The Building of Magic Cities
        date: None
       words: 38920
      flesch: 75
     summary: Education as it should be, the unfolding of a flower, not the distorting of it, is only possible to those who are willing and able themselves to become as little children. Because those things which must be now as they used to be, trees, leaves, rivers, and the laughter of little children, flowers, the sea at those points where piers are impracticable, and mountains--the ones stony and steep enough to resist the jerry-builder and the funicular railway--still hold all, and more than all, their old magic and delight.
    keywords: arches; beauty; boxes; bricks; building; chapter; child; children; cities; city; day; education; good; grown; house; illustration; imagination; let; life; look; love; magic; man; men; new; paper; people; place; play; red; silver; sort; things; think; time; toys; want; way; white; world; wrong
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        item: #13 of 24
          id: 39663
      author: Johnston, B. (Bertha)
       title: Home Occupations for Boys and Girls
        date: None
       words: 46128
      flesch: 83
     summary: NUTS =Boat= (_Walnut shell_, _pan of water_, _toothpicks_, _candle-wax_) SUN AND SHADOW =Blue-Prints= (_Leaf_, _blue-print paper_, _running water_, _small oblong of glass_)
    keywords: blue; book; box; cardboard; child; children; circle; color; cut; draw; edge; end; ends; fold; form; glue; good; hand; holes; inches; kindergarten; left; line; long; making; page; paint; paper; paste; pencil; picture; piece; place; red; ribbon; right; scissors; small; square; string; table; thread; time; toy; turn; use; water; way; white
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        item: #14 of 24
          id: 42549
      author: Beard, Lina
       title: Indoor and Outdoor Recreations for Girls
        date: None
       words: 65503
      flesch: 84
     summary: Bend forward the interior of the fireplace (Fig. 208) at dotted lines, and fit Fig. Lay Fig. 290 on top of Fig. 291; bend the flaps over and paste them on Fig. 290.
    keywords: basket; bend; black; board; centre; chapter; circle; cut; edge; end; ends; fig; finger; flowers; form; green; half; hand; head; illustration; inches; left; line; little; making; paper; piece; pin; place; red; right; rose; sides; stick; thread; tie; time; tissue; turn; way; weave; white; work
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        item: #15 of 24
          id: 43720
      author: White, Mary
       title: The Child's Rainy Day Book
        date: None
       words: 35042
      flesch: 86
     summary: Other pieces of the same size are cut from red, yellow and green gingham--three of each colour. Grog is baked clay pounded into small pieces--an old flower pot will do if you are using flower-pot clay.
    keywords: beads; clay; cut; edge; end; fig; half; illustration; inches; left; materials; needle; paper; piece; raffia; rattan; required:=; right; silk; string; thread; way; white
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        item: #16 of 24
          id: 47760
      author: None
       title: Three Hundred Things a Bright Boy Can Do
        date: None
       words: 128105
      flesch: 79
     summary: $Shadow Buff.$--A sheet or other large piece of white linen should be fastened at one end of the room, so that it hangs without wrinkles; Buff seats himself on a low stool with his face to the sheet, and a table, on which is a lighted candle, should be placed about four or five feet behind him, and the rest of the lights in the room extinguished. Next take a cane or other piece of light flexible wood, and bind the centre of it tightly at the point G an inch below A. Bend the cane into a semi-circle and connect C and D with string.
    keywords: = =; air; ball; bar; black; board; boat; body; box; boy; boys; candle; canoe; card; case; centre; club; colour; course; cross; cut; day; distance; draw; edge; end; feet; fig; fish; flame; following; food; foot; form; game; glass; good; half; hand; having; head; hole; illustration; inches; king; leaves; left; legs; length; line; making; man; means; men; need; open; paper; parts; pass; piece; place; play; player; point; position; right; room; round; run; set; size; small; square; table; time; turn; use; water; way; white; wood; work
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        item: #17 of 24
          id: 5890
      author: Blain, Mary E.
       title: Games for Hallow-e'en
        date: None
       words: 10433
      flesch: 83
     summary: Write on slips of paper names of several of opposite sex friends; roll papers into balls of dough and drop them into water. Finally, the stump is carried home and hung over door, first person outside of family who passes under it will bear a name whose initial is same as that of sweetheart.
    keywords: apple; candle; end; future; hallow; hand; lady; love; paper; person; place; players; right; room; table; water
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        item: #18 of 24
          id: 60849
      author: Castle, Arnold
       title: When Day is Done
        date: None
       words: 2102
      flesch: 87
     summary: Well, that was okay--Bernard had been a late-runner in his youth. So Bernard entered the rap-tran alone, though surrounded by scores of pushing, jabbering strangers.
    keywords: bernard; jungle; panthers; pistol
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        item: #19 of 24
          id: 6129
      author: Calhoun, A. R. (Alfred Rochefort)
       title: Healthful Sports for Boys
        date: None
       words: 42503
      flesch: 83
     summary: On cricket, baseball, hand ball and other great games, many books have been written telling how to play scientifically. We fought quite naked, and--well, I licked the bully, and never after that did he try to frighten small boys in that swimming hole.
    keywords: ball; boat; box; boy; boys; cat; center; chapter; coin; end; feet; foot; game; goal; ground; half; hand; inches; left; legs; length; line; man; marbles; number; place; player; position; practice; rah; right; ring; second; sides; taw; time; use; water; way
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        item: #20 of 24
          id: 63474
      author: Smith, Richard Rein
       title: Alien Equivalent
        date: None
       words: 3193
      flesch: 88
     summary: The game between the Martians, it only took the loser a few seconds to pay the duchal! That's right, Farrell agreed. I'll pay this duchal in a few minutes; they'll let me free and I'll-- You don't realize, Farrell interrupted, Martians are sickly, sensitive people and they're adept at projecting sensations of agony from their brains.
    keywords: duchal; farrell; game; martian; tharp
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        item: #21 of 24
          id: 6416
      author: Seeger, Frederica
       title: Entertainments for Home, Church and School
        date: None
       words: 41102
      flesch: 82
     summary: He is not met with opposition in such endeavor, as in other ball games, his opponent having also a ball which he, too, is trying to put into the same spot with fewer strokes. TONGUE-TWISTERS--ANY NUMBER OF PLAYERS
    keywords: ball; box; center; chapter; children; circle; end; feet; figure; form; game; half; hand; head; lady; leader; left; line; man; men; number; paper; party; person; piece; place; players; right; ring; room; round; second; stand; sum; table; thought; time; turn; water; way; word
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        item: #22 of 24
          id: 6857
      author: Davis, Andrew McFarland
       title: Indian Games : an historical research
        date: None
       words: 19226
      flesch: 76
     summary: Sometimes they played it by themselves and sometimes they played other ball games which closely resemble that game. In addition to the games of lacrosse, platter or dice, straws and chunkee, there were other games, some of an athletic nature, some purely of chance, which observers have described, some of which are mentioned only in limited areas, while others, like the games above mentioned, were played by Indians scattered over a wide territory and apparently having but little in common.
    keywords: american; ball; dice; feet; footnote; form; game; ground; hand; iii; indians; lacrosse; north; number; perrot; players; ring; sides; stone; vol; women
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        item: #23 of 24
          id: 8439
      author: Hofmann, Mary Christiana
       title: Games for Everybody
        date: None
       words: 29537
      flesch: 87
     summary: Suppose the proverb Make hay while the sun shines is taken, then player No. 1 would have Make; No. 2, hay; No. 3, while; No. 4, the; No. 5, sun; No. 6, shines; No. 7, make; etc., giving each player a word, often repeating the proverb several times. There should be one less chair than the number of players.
    keywords: answer; children; circle; game; guess; hostess; leader; left; letter; line; number; paper; place; player; prize; right; room; table; time; turn; word
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        item: #24 of 24
          id: 9177
      author: Anonymous
       title: The Royal Game of the Ombre Written at the Request of divers Honourable Persons—1665
        date: None
       words: 2376
      flesch: 85
     summary: In playing Trump; you are to note, that if any playes an ordinary Trump, and you have onely the three best Cards, or Matadors, singly or can jointly in your hands, you may refuse to play them, without Renouncing, because of the priviledge which those Cards have, that none but commanding Cards can force them out of your hands; as for example, the Spadillio forces the Mallilio, and the Mallilio the Basto; for all the rest you are to follow Trump. I will only say, that if you are not sure of winning five Tricks, but have only the three Matadors, (as for example) and Kings be your Auxilary Cards, if you have the leading you are to begin with a Matador or two before you play your Kings, to fetch out those Trump perhaps which might have trumped them; and if you have three Matadors with two other Trumps your best way is first to play you Matadors, to see how the Trump lie, and if both follow, you are sure that if three Trump be Red, there remains onely one Trump in their hands; if Black, none at all; it importing so much that the player counts the Trumps, as the miscounting only one, do's often lose the Game.
    keywords: cards; game
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