A STORY TEAM RACE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 554, 5 January 1929, Page 25

A STORY TEAM RACE

This game can be played in room or garden. There are two equal rows of players facing each other, one standing and one sitting. Each player in the standing row is given by the referee a slip of paper, but does not look at it. They then return to their line. Meanwhile the sitting row is ready with pencil and writing-block. At the word “Go” from the referee, the standing row runs to the sitting row and hands them their papers, which the sitting row reads. The papers can contain the first line of a nursery rhyme, and the sitting player has to finisn it or instructions to write out the alphabet, or the chorus of any popular song given. When the sitting player has written what is required, he hands it back to the standing player, who runs with it to the referee. The one who arrives back first with the correct answer wins the prize, which he must, of course, share with the sitting player.

THE GOBLIN AND THE CROWN One day, a goblin saw a very pretty pair of braces in a village shop window*. They were green, w*ith red roses worked on them# The goblin went into the shop and asked how* muco they were. “I should like a crown for them.” said the girl. The only crown that the goblin knew of was that of the fairy queen, who has a fresh one every night, because they are made of dewdrops and, of course, they are no good if they are not fresh. The goblin went off and asked the fairy queen’s maid to give him one of the queen’s old crowns. The maid gave him one, and he took it to the shop and asked for the braces. The girl turned the crown over in her hand and said, “What is it?” “A crown,” said the goblin. He knew It was not a new one, and was rather afraid that the girl would not take it. “You may’ have the braces,” she said The goblin went off delighted and, ever since, the whole village has been asking where Tilly at the shop got her diamond ring. —Sent in by Iris Wilkinson.

MAKE YOUR BOW You can play’ this jolly' game in the playground, and any number can join in. One player is elected leader, and he stands in front of the rest of the players, who form a straight line. First of all, each player in the line must be given a profession, such, for instance, as a builder carpenter, baker, and so on. The leader stands in front of the line and calls out: “Builder, bow,” “baker, bow*," and so on. Immediately he says it the player who is a builder or a baker must bow*. The game is to try and catch the players and make them bow out of their turn. Each time they do this they lose a life, and when they have lost three lives they fall out of the game. The last player out of the game wins, and, if you want to play again, he takes the role of leader.