HOW, WHEN, AND WHERE.

ANNIE-Hush, Tom, you must not tell anything.
EVA.-Well, Maggie, when do you like it?
MAGGIE.-When I want to put up a parcel.

EVA.-Ah, Maggie! I think I can guess a bit now. It must be string, or paper, or pens and ink.

like it, Rupert?

RUPERT.-When I am at the office.

EVA.-And you, Annie ?

ANNIE. When I want to write to mamma.

When do you

EVA.-Oh! I am getting at the truth now.

you like it, Tom?

TOм. On the wall.

Where do

EVA.-Now you put me out again. On the wall? I don't see it. And you, Jessie?

JESSIE. I like it in my

hand

EVA. That is a very bad answer; but never mind. Now for you, Rupert, where do you like it?

RUPERT. In the pigeon holes.

ANNIE. And I like it on the table.

EVA.-Let me see. Tom likes it flowered, when he is looking about him, on the wall. Jessie likes it "red," at breakfast, after papa's fashion, and in her hand. Perhaps it is "read" she means. Maggie likes it clean, when she wants to wrap up a parcel, and in her hand. glazed, at the office, and in the pigeon holes.

Rupert likes it

Annie prefers

it ruled, when she wants to write to mamma, and on the table. Ah! that is plain enough. Your word is " Paper."

Our readers will perceive that each party in his answers bears out one idea of paper, and does not mix his metaphors.

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One of

S a similar game to " How, when, and where," and is a common game in France. the company leaves the room and a word is then fixed on, say, for instance, "Benighted." All sorts of punning answers are permissible. Tom, who has left the room, re-enters.

TOм-How do you like it?

ANNIE-At school.

JESSIE.-In my poetry book.

RUPERT.-I like it happy.

MAGGIE. I would see it in a flower.

LAURA. And I think it is more at home in a hive.

Tом.-Oh, Miss Laura, you have let the cat out of the bag! the first syllable is Be or Bee. Now for the second: How do you like it?

ANNIE. On the field of battle.

JESSIEI should like my husband to-.

TOM.-That's a queer answer.

JESSIE. Very appropriate.

RUPERT.-I should be agreeable to be so myself.
EVA. It's what many of the lord mayors are.
MAGGIE.

men are.

And what artists, and architects, and brave

VERBAL CHARADES.

LAURA.—And what happened to heroesof old?

TOм.—I can't guess this. Artists, and architects, and heroes of old, and lord mayors, and folks on the field of bat le are dead-but it can't be dead either; you might wish your husband dead, Jessie. I'm sure I cannot answer for you, but Rupert would not wish himself so. It is to be something. Now for the whole word. Perhaps that will help

EVA. I think you had better vary the question, Tom, and ask us how we should like it best.

out.

TOм.-Very well, how would you like it best?

ANNIE. In an Indian jungle.

JESSIE. On a wet night.

me.

RUPERT.-With King Coffee and his army on the look

EVA.-Without a protector.

MAGGIE. I'd like it best if I had a map, or compass with

LAURA.—I'd like it very much if I were sure to meet a prince out a-hunting, after the manner of the fairy tales. TOM-I can make nothing of that. Stop, though! "In the field of battle!" "What many lord mayors are," knighted of course! I have you now; the word is "Benighted." You have taken a little liberty with the spelling, but I forgive you.

HOW CAN YOU PLEASE ME?

HIS game can be played by any number, in the
twilight or dark, or under any circumstances,
and such games are often very useful to keep
a number of young people quiet during the
occurrence of any dilemma.
We will sup-

pose A, B, C, and D, form the circle, though any number
can form it. The answers are to be alphabetical.

A.-How can you please me?

B. I will please you with fire, I will please you with water, I will please you with earth, and I will please you with air.

A.-How will you please me with fire?
B.-I will set a good fire alight for you.
A.-How will you please me with water?
B.-I will allow you to ask for it.

A. How will you please me with earth?
B. I will give you arable land to till.
A.-How will you please me with air?

B. I will send you an albatross when you are at sea.
(A is an awkward letter in this game, B is better).

B says to C.-How can you please me?

C. I will please you with fire, water, earth, and air.

B. How will you please me with fire?

HOW CAN YOU PLEASE ME?

B.-How will you please me with water?

C. I will rig out a boat for

you.

B.-How will you please me with earth?

C. The church bells shall always be music to you.
B.-How will you please me with air?

C.-The balmy breeze shall ever blow on you.

C. to D.-How can you please me?

D. I will please you with fire, water, earth, and air.
C.-How will you please me with fire?

D.—I will fill a can of hot water for you.
C.-How will you please me with water?
D.—I will make the sea calm for you.
C.-How will you please me with earth?

D. Your cabin shall be the abode of contentment.

C.-How will you please me with air?

D.-There shall never be a cloud above you in the blue

canopy.

D. to E.-How can you please me?

E.-I will please you with fire, water, earth, and air.
D.-How can you please me with fire?

E. By a display of fire works at the Crystal Palace.

D.-How can you please me with water?

E. I will detain you on board my yacht.

D.-How will you please me with earth?

E. I will bring you dog roses.

D. How will you please me with air?

E.

You will doat on the dear zephyrs of health I will fan

you with.

And so on to the end of the alphabet.