A different set of mice should be chosen each time so as to give all of the players an opportunity to join in the game.

This is a favorite schoolroom game for little children. They should be taught to add sport to the play by giving the cat quite a chase before returning to their seats instead of seeking safety in the shortest and most direct way.

“How many horses has your father in his stable ”
He replies “Three.”
“What color are they ”
“Black white and gray.”
“Turn around three times and catch whom you may.”

The blindfolded player is then spun around so as to confuse his sense of direction. He then says “Still pond no more moving ” whereupon the other players must stand still being allowed only three steps thereafter. The blindfolded player begins to grope for the others. When he catches one he must guess by touching the hair dress etc. whom he has caught. If he guesses correctly the player changes places with him. If incorrectly he must go on with his search. The players may resort to any reasonable devices for escaping the hands of the groping blind man such as stooping or dodging so long as they do not take more than three steps. When caught a player may try to disguise his identity by making himself shorter etc.

It is scarcely necessary to say that the other players wake up to watch the chase.

The players are divided into two parties. Each party has a captain each player being captain in turn during successive rounds of the game. The players gather around a table one party on one side and the others opposite. A coin usually a quarter is passed from hand to hand under the table by one of the parties in an endeavor to conceal from the opponents which individual holds it. The leader of the opposite party then calls “Up Jenkins ” when all of the hands of his opponents are brought from under the table and held up with palms outward toward the guessing party fingers closed down tightly over the palms the quarter being hidden in one of the hands. The opponents may look at the hands from their side of the table in this way as long as they choose. The leader then commands “Down Jenkins ” when the hands are slammed down simultaneously flat on the table palms downward. This is done with enough noise to disguise the clink of the coin striking the table. The object of the game is for the opponents (those not having the coin) to guess under which hand the coin is laid each hand supposed not to have it being ordered off the table. The captain of the guessing party who alone may give these orders (though his players may assist him with suggestions) calls for the lifting of one specified hand at a time. The player named must lift the hand indicated and that hand is thereafter to be taken from the table.

If the guessing party can be successful in thus eliminating all of the empty hands so that the coin is left under the last hand they are considered to have won and the coin passes to them for the next round. If the coin be disclosed before the last hand be reached the side holding it adds to its score the hands remaining on the table that were not ordered off. The side wins which has the highest score when the play stops the time limits being indefinite.