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Show ' THE mm GRAMMARr A RECESS GAME. 1 iiii By Raymond fuller Aycrs, v'lal Tho game can bo pi vyed by nny number, num-ber, but tho most scientific way Is to havo Just ten players to correspond wllh tho ten pnits of speech. 1'neh plijer lakes run name of ono of these parta of speech, noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, lucpnslllnn, conjunction, Interjection, In-terjection, ..aillrlplo und article Huch one Is also ciUlpK!il with n pnprr nnd pencil, and then Iho f-ano Is ready to begin. Tho first thing to do Is to number tho little sllpi of paper from ono to ton, und then place them In n h it box lunch basket or something of the kind and shake them tlioroughlj 'linn eicli pluver must, without looking, draw a number out of the basket h n nil hnvo drvwn they lake tin Ir scats, In tho order or the numbers on their JeJ8ll'g5fciiaMilU.llJlUaYIIJJU!gg3B slips. Numbor ono sits at thn right, and so on until the row la completo Now the icnl ginio commences 'lho pi lycra wiito the names of nil on theli I ads of paper In tho order In which lhey now sit nnd below tho nnmo of each ono Is written tho pirt or speech she has chosen Thus, No 1, i 3, I, might bo Helen I.lnck, May While I dllli Orcen and Mabel On. Hoiu.ith Helen a name on lho papers of lho other pHjera might bo "adjective," nnd below tho others, 'noun," "verb," 'ad verb," etc, This Is so that each plijer can clotect a mlstiko the mlnutn uny one mikes one The plajer nt the rlglit-ljaiid end or "head" saja a word that conesponda with tho pirt of sio'eh alio has elinann and the lest follow turn, i ich adding a woril that la In the class or their chosen part of speech, unci which besides makes senso with wliut litis goini be fore nnd helps form a perfect sentence, , H The other plnjera ench write on their 'HcJJK puis tho words that ench one adds, nnd jTjV in this wnj If uii) one should say n,4H word that dnea not mako senso that "ftH Is not the pnrt or speech sho liai'-fV chosen or a word that does not fit In 'JH' the sentence every ono will notice It. ;'H Whenevei one or tho plajers makes a 'H mistake of this kind ho or shn Is AH ohllge1 to go In tho foot ot lho lino, ,feH whllo tho rest all movu up ono spare. iiJH As soon na ono plijer says a word UiaH that lliilshcs a sentence shn may cry. lM "Donol ' nnd tho plijer on her left B hand must start another sentence wlthAjaH her part of speech This Is sometimes 'hH vry hard to do und hive the, word'i'iH make sense and a great dcnl of fun Is , In knowing Just vvliero to i"i No nnv H vvnrd can bo used tvvlen In accession. ,B Thn plnjer wlio Is at lho head of the, H class when tho bell rings wins. tB . ---. t ..-.4J'VV--?!eji |