Show THE GAME OF LURE 90 A novel entertainment for fop railway Travel travelers Tra velera erx A british traveler aspires to the invention of anew a new game which lie he encountered in one of the home railways he basalonc wasa was alone lonc in a first class ca carriage r r i irre r when two young gentlemen and three young women entered he soon gained g from their conversation that they intended to leave a parcel at a cert lin station ile ho thou thought that it would be civil to tell them that they had already p ased it ile he was thanked and one of the gentlemen made a pencil mark on ili im cuff soon one 0 of the 3 oung it w men asked the time and none of the pai ty kv having a watch they ben began n to guese when the single traveler kindly told them again a mark ww was made on tho the cuff the packy displayed such ignorance of the route that several times time out of pure hind kindness ness this gentleman volunteered timely information at each time hia bib courtesy was followed by a i mark on a cuff presently they divided some money between them and loft left the train some time after that the traveler learned that he was the victim of a game called lure the players talce take turns to start a conversation entirely among themselves with gitlia a view of inducing a stranger to break into it unasked if the lure succeeds the starter scores one against each of the others the alic latter if he fails I 1 scoring against agrain st hirn him the points of course can be any sum agreed upon if the person lured gives a wrong answer the starter is double all tho the players are bound to support tho the arter starter bt |