Games for All Occasions (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The desire to play and frolic seems to be a heritage I \of mankind. In infancy and early childhood this joy' and exuberance of spirit is given full sway. In youth, that effervescent stage of human existence, joy is unconfined. But in middle age and later life Wé are 'prone to stifle this wholesome atmosphere of hap piness, with care and worry and perhaps, when a vexed or worried feeling has been allowed to control us, even forbid the children to play at that time. Why not reverse things and drown care and strife in the well-spring of joy given and received by te viving the latent spark of childhood and youth; join ing in their pleasures passively or actively and being one of them at heart. So presuming that men are but children of a larger growth, the games, pastimes and entertainments described herewith: were' col lected, remembered and originated respectively with the view of pleasing all of the children, from the tiny tot to, and including the grown-up, each according.

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