Hints From Squints; A Book of Fun and Fodder, Gumption and Gimp, Pedogogy and Philanthropy, Morals and Manners

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1905. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... hints miscellaneous. attention and memory test. 1. One fat hen. 2. Two squawking wild geese. 3. Three plump partridges. 4. Four ducks. 5. Five hundred Limerick oysters. 6. Six hundred Macedonian horsemen, drawn up in battle array. 7. Seven pairs of Don Alphonso's tweezers. 8. Eight cages of hileo-gavenon-spare-gites. 9. Nine sympathetic, apathetic, categorical propositions. 10. Ten old-fashioned, flat-bottomed ply boats, sent to ply between Matamoras and Madagascar. 11. Eleven Ethiopian singing and dancing masters, sent to teach the Egyptian mummies how to sing and dance on Hercules's wedding day. 12. Twelve dozen bottles of Adolphus Pholphus schiedam schnapps, used and approved in all hospitals and similar institutions throughout the United States, Germany, France and Great Britain. Suggestions. The foregoing is a most excellent test of verbal memory and the attentive powers, as well as source of amusement, to bright people. Let the company be arranged in a circle or regular line. Let the leader give distinctly the first sentence; the person next to the leader repeats it at once and exactly to number two of the line; number two to number three, and so on to the end. The leader then repeats the second sentence, immediately following it by the first sentence, as: "Two squawking wild geese. One fat hen." This goes down the line. Then the leader gives the third sentence and repeats two and one, as: "Three plump partridges. Two squawking wild geese. One fat hen." This is taken up by number one in line and repeated exactly. Number two follows when number one has finished. It is but fair to vary the order a portion of the time, and let the person at the farther end of the line take up the first repetition. Sometimes, for fun, competition, general breaking up of formal...