of acting out the verbal nouns: This is one of the games accompanied by movement, and it is a favorite at family parties.

One of the guests goes outside the room, and the company agrees in whispers on one of the verbal nouns — say “laziness, love, drowsiness, anger,” and so on... Then the person comes in from outside and asks one of those present to give him a cigarette, another to light the fire, and a third to kiss his neighbor, for example — on condition that these acts be performed in the spirit of the noun secretly agreed upon. If it is “laziness,” the acts are performed in the spirit of laziness, “in pantomime,” and so on, until the noun is guessed; then a second person goes outside and the game begins anew...

4 - The musical circle game: It is worth mentioning that games accompanied by music spread among

the guests an air of gaiety and merriment...

Seat the company in a circle and bring some objects that provoke laughter: old spectacles, a false nose, a dog's face, an old hat trimmed with flowers, the aged grandfather's tarboush, and so on... To the strain

of the music the guests pass one of these objects from hand to hand, and the person who receives it when the music stops puts it on, and it stays on him until the end of the game, when all these objects have run out.... This game stirs up life and a welcome spirit of gaiety.

Between two palace children:

- Tell me, Mario, where did your mother buy the baby that arrived yesterday?

- She didn't buy it fwom here. It came from Paris by airplane, in a box of satin lined with lace!

Between two street children — and they were listening to what was being said behind the railing:

- And you too, Manuel — your mother bought a baby; so where did she buy it? From New York?

- We're poor folk; we can't afford the airplane fare. My mother made it at home...

* A luxurious American car was devouring the ground one day in England, in the direction of Stratford-upon-Avon. At the entrance to the little town the driver braked violently and shouted in the face of one of the pedestrians:

- Is this the road to Shakespeare's house?

- Yes, sir — but there's no need for all this speed, because Mister Shakespeare died long ago!