FILLING IN SKELETONS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 30, 26 July 1890, Page 19

FILLING IN SKELETONS.

A MOST amusing entertainment for a little social gathering is the filling in of skeleton poems. It will not do for those whose greatest ambition is the winning of prizes, although some ingenious woman might possibly manage to connect something of the kind with this, but we shall leave her to do it for herself. To make ready for the game have several sets of slips of paper, enough to go around two or three times, each set having upon it a skeleton something like the following: Boy, Round School, Looks ; Joy, Found, Rule, Crook. Pin, - Chair. Ends ; Where, Thin, ‘ Rare !’ Bends, ‘ Swear !’ Quick, Growl. Stick, Scowl, — Thick, Howl ! Lick, Yowl! Number the stanzas, and give one to each guest to fill in just as he pleases. When all are finished call for them to lie read in the order they come for each poem. The result will be most laughable. Of course, in a thing of this kind there are no prizes, but it simply calls into exercise the inventive powers, and, as only a few are natural poets, some funny combinations will appear. Another amusement somewhat similar is taking some essay or description, cutting the lines apart and pasting every other one separately upon slips of paper. Number them and pass them round, letting the guest take up the thought in his line as well as he can, and carry it forward another line. Then combine and compare it with the original.