A Jane Austen Christmas: Regency Christmas Traditions (Jane Austen Regency Life Book 1) by Grace Maria

Author:Grace, Maria [Grace, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Soup Press
Published: 2014-11-10T00:00:00+00:00

Word/Memory Games

W hen weather, space, or personal preferences did not favor active games, staid word and memory games allowed for flirtation in quiet ways. Clever players could find ways to convey outrageous messages to one another under cover of a rhyme or required response.

T he Doctor

Each player is a patient. The doctor comes, feels the pulse of the first patient, asks after the disorder, and then orders a remedy in contrast to the patient’s complaint.

For example, if the patient complains of cold the doctor might order something hot; if the patient is feverish, a basket of snow -balls, two at night, one in the morning; if plagued with a sour stomach, a quart of decoction of sweet-william, with a pound of sugar, every four hours.

After going all round, the doctor addresses any one of the party, and says, "__________ (one of the players) is ill of such a complaint. What would you order in that case?'' if the player cannot remember the remedy prescribed, he must pay a forfeit. The next player is asked a similar question, until all the players have been queried.

I Love My Love With An A.

Every person takes a letter and completes the verse with words beginning with that letter. The most difficult letters like X, Y, Z may be left out. Anyone who cannot fulfill their verse or who repeats what has been said by another must pay a forfeit.

This game may be played with a short verse or a long one. The short version: I love my love with an A, because she is ardent: I hate her, because she is ambitious. I took her to Andover, to the sign of the Angel. I treated her with artichokes; and her name is Anne Adair.

The longer version: I love my love with an S, because she is sensible; I hate her, because she is sarcastic; by way of presents, I gave her Shenstone, a squirrel, a sea-gull, and a sensitive plant; I took her to Salisbury, to the sign of the Sun, and treated her with soup, salmon, sand-larks, shaddocks, and sherry; her name is Selina Smith, and she is dressed in sarsnet.

S hort Answers

The players are seated in a circle, ladies and gentlemen alternately. A lady asks her right-hand neighbor a question, to which he replies with single syllable words. Longer words will exact a penalty, one for each additional syllable. He then turns to the next lady with a question. The questions may be mundane as in: Pray sir, permit me to ask if you love dancing? Or unique as in: Pray madam, what wood do you think the best for making thumb-screws? Neither question nor answer may be repeated. Any player who repeats a question or answer incurs a forfeit.

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