AMERICAN INDOOR GAME.
(Sent' Yin by Edith Williams,' 15,' Bollard Avenue,: Avondale ;. age 16.) Any number of players may take part. The players form a circle around Father Abraham (a ; boy with a handkerchief tied under his chin for a beard, and car : rying a. walking stick). The. players dance ardund - "Father Abraham" until he pounds hjs.stick in front 'of 1 one of? them. ThU' player,"then stepsf forward, and says: "'Father Abraham','-.:; Abraham,"if I cannot make you'i laugh I : will take your place." Then Ire or.she; does'alf the fuh'y things he can think of" and if he fails to make "Father Abraham" laugh he takes his place, and thus the game goes on.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 162, 11 July 1934, Page 20
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113AMERICAN INDOOR GAME. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 162, 11 July 1934, Page 20
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