The White Cat.
This game is a modern variation upon the oldtime favourite Poor Pussy Wants a Corner ; but) the alteration adds an amusing complication to the older and simpler game. The players take possession of the corners of the room, while the white cat stands on the alert in the middle. The players are then bound in honour to change corners with their neighbours as frequently as possible, the cat striving to gain one of the corners in these intervals. In any case the cat retains the office, but when one of the other players is caught out of his hole, that player is compelled to retire from the game. The hole is then considered ' stopped,' and must no longer be used. If anyone now unluckily enters a stopped hole, he also is retired, and the game may be continued until all the players have thus been placed in banishment.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 327, 22 December 1888, Page 4
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151The White Cat. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 327, 22 December 1888, Page 4
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