and his thumb and second fingering may be made by hanging a curinto the arms. The exhibitor shows tain in an ordinary doorway bethe puppets to the audience through tween two rooms, so that it just an opening about two or three feet hides the exhibitor when he stands square, just above his head; only upright. Another arrangement is two appear at a time, one being made by taking a dry-goods box two operated by each hand. The open- or three feet square and hanging or supporting it against the wall. The toward the audience, and it is con venient to have a shelf at the bottom of the opening, projecting outward to form a sort of stage. front and bottom of the box must be open, and from the front and sides curtains hang to the floor, concealing the exhibitor. In either The chief characters are always case an ornamental wooden or Punch and his wife Judy, but many pasteboard frame may be placed others are usually introduced, genaround the opening on the side erally including a doctor, a police man or constable, and a hangman. | legs are seen by the audience. Punch has a hooked nose and chin, They are made to hang loosely, so pointing toward each other, and is that he can dance on the stage. He the only one of the puppets whose holds a stick about a foot long, by Fig. 3.-Punch (1), Judy (2), and Hangman (3). pressing it with his arm against his side. When he strikes any one with it, his whole body bobs forward. The heads of the puppets are painted on rolls of cardboard, as in Fig. I, or cut out of hollow pieces of wood like Fig. 2, when they look like Fig. 3. The projecting ridge on one side of the cylinder is shaped with the knife into the nose and chin. In any case the figures have a hole at the bottom for the exhibitor's forefinger; the bodies are fastened to them with glue or tacks. The exhibitor speaks for each of the performers, and carries on a sort of drama, generally opening with a scene between Punch and his wife Judy. Punch disposes of the the exhibitor. Punch speaks in a other characters peculiar squeaking voice, and gives one by one, by a sort of squeal of joy at the diskilling them comfiture of his enemies. The with his stick, squeak may be produced by an inand throwing strument called a Punch and Judy their bodies on Trumpet (see Fig. 7), made of two the stage. At half rings of wood and a bit of ribthe close, the bon. The manner of speaking must hangman comes be learned from some one who to execute him, knows it. Those performers who but Punch pre- have not yet made their appeartends he does not know how to put his head into the noose, and when the hangman undertakes to show him, Punch pulls the rope and hangs the executioner himself. Fig. 4. The Baby. The gallows is one end of the beam which 3 2 Fig. 7.-Punch and Judy Trumpet. passes a string, se-ance must be laid on a chair or hung on hooks, within easy reach of the exhibitor. cured at one hole by a knot, and forming a sort of noose between the two. The action of the rest of the drama depends on Fig. 5.-Gallows. the ingenuity of PUSH PIN, a SOLITAIRE game of CARDS, played with two packs. The cards are laid out in a straight line, face upward, as they come from the pack. Any card that lies between two of the same suit, or two of the same value, as any two Hearts, or any two Queens, is pushed out of place, and two or more of the same suit between two of the same value may also be pushed out. The card at one end of the row may be removed to the other, or, what is the same thing, the cards may be placed in a circle. The player wins if he can push out all cards but two. PUSS IN THE CORNER, a game played by several persons, each of whom stands in the corner of a room. One player, chosen as Puss, stands in the middle. As the others change corners, two by two, which they try to do when the Puss is not Fig. 6-Punch and Judy dressed for the Play. looking, he attempts to slip into one of the corners, and if he succeed, the player thus left out must be Puss in his turn. The game may be played out of doors, when trees, posts, or stones may be used as corners. In such a case, Puss has only to touch the tree or stone after one player has left it, and before the player with whom he is changing places touches it. player draws on his paper some kind of a line, straight, curved, angular, or all three, and the papers are folded and mixed. Each then selects one, and must draw a figure that is partly formed by the line on the paper. Those who do not succeed must pay forfeits. One who is used to the game can often make a creditable picture with a line so PUZZLE DRAWINGS, a game jagged and irregular that the task played by any number of persons, seems impossible. each with pencil and paper. Each PYRAMID. See CHECKERS. QUADRALET, a game played when the game has been won. If by any number of persons with 49 the player finds it necessary to square pieces, completely filling a shallow square box. One of the pieces is marked with a black dot, and of the others half are white and Quadralet.-Fig. 2. move a piece back, that counts as a move. The word Quadralet is from the Latin Quadratum, a square. half brown. The pieces are ar- QUAKER MEETING, a game ranged in a pattern, and the dotted played by any number of persons, one removed. If the game is who have handkerchiefs tied around played as a SOLITAIRE game, the their heads, and are supposed to player's object is to make the white represent Quakers. A leader is and brown pieces change places chosen, who takes the other playcompletely, by moving them one by ers, one by one, into another room, one into an adjacent empty space. and tells each some ridiculous thing When more than one play, he wins to do, such as to walk across the who can do this in the least number room on all fours grunting like a of moves. For instance, if the pig, or to go around kissing the pieces are arranged at first as in furniture (see FORFEITS). When Fig. 1, they will look as in Fig. 2 all have been thus instructed, the players sit around the sides of the room, and the leader points to them, one by one. Each, as he is pointed out, must do the task assigned him. During the game none of the players must speak, laugh aloud, or make any other noise with the mouth or lips, under penalty of a forfeit. thank thee. How's the neighbor next to thee?" "I don't know, but I'll go see." Here each player begins to make the new motion as he asks the first question. QUEEN'S PARTY, THE, a SOLITAIRE game of CARDS, played with one pack. The first sixteen cards, in the pack are laid, as they appear, in four rows of four each, forming a hollow square. These cards are called the Ante-chamber, and the space within them is named the Audience Hall. The cards, repre This game is called Quaker Meeting, because at the religious services of the Society of Friends (called Quakers) all present often sit for a long time without speak-senting guests, are taken from the ing a word or making a sound. QUEEN DIDO IS DEAD, a game played by any number of persons, who stand in a circle, or in a row. The player who begins the game says to his neighbor, "Queen Dido is dead!" The neighbor inquires of the speaker, "How did she die?" and the answer is, "She died doing so." As the last word is spoken, the speaker begins to shake his right hand up and down, and he continues the motion through the game. The second player now repeats this conversation with the one next him, and when it has gone the round of the company all are shaking their right hands. During the second round the speaker, at the word "so," begins also to shake his left hand; on the third round, to stamp his right foot; on the fourth, his left; and on the fifth to nod his head. By this time the appearance of the company is very laughable, and all are generally tired; but if it is desired to continue the game, each player, as he says "She died doing so," may begin to run around in a small circle. Ante-chamber, or directly from the pack, and placed in the Audience Hall in their proper positions, which are as follows: The King and Queen of Hearts at the top, of Diamonds at the bottom, of Clubs at the right, and of Spades at the left. The Queens are placed on the Kings, and each pair must enter the Audience Hall together. The Aces (called Emperors) are in like manner accompanied by the Knaves, which are placed on them, and are laid in the corners of the Audience Hall. On the Knaves are placed in order the other cards (called common people) following suit. Spaces left by guests, in passing from the Ante-chamber, are filled from the pack, and those cards that can be placed neither in the Ante-chamber nor at once in the Audience Hall, are laid aside to form stock, the top card of which can also be used at any time. If the whole pack can be brought thus into the Audience Hall, the player wins. QUERIES, a writing game played by any number of persons. Each writes at the top of a piece of paper There are many variations of this a question on some historical or game. In one of them, called "My other subject, and then puts the Aunt Ion," the conversation is, "Do answer at the bottom, folding up you know my Aunt Ion?" No." part of the paper so as to hide it. "My Aunt Ion does so." In an- The papers are now passed around other, called Neighbor, neigh-in regular order. Each one anbor," it is, "Neighbor, neighbor, swers the queries to the best of his how art thou?""Pretty well, I ability, folding the paper to hide his |