FAMILY FUN
Dumb Crambo (Acting Verbs).This game was old when Dickens played it in the sixties, yet it is as popular to-day. As it is also a pantomime game, it may follow charades. The company divides into two gatherings. Half the players retire from the room. The remaining players decide upon a verb, and send a messenger to the acting players to say a word rhyming with the selected verb. For example, if ' obey' has been fixed upon, the messenger announces that the verb rhymes with ' ray.' Then the actors present themselves, and, without uttering a word, go through the motions of the rhyming verbs, such as bay, bray, slay (or sleigh), lay, neigh, stay, say, weigh, pay, pray, piey, play, convey. When the right word is acted in dumb show, the spectators clap, and then take their turn as actors.
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New Zealand Tablet, 4 May 1911, Page 838
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141FAMILY FUN New Zealand Tablet, 4 May 1911, Page 838
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