8/17 Making parrots, flowers, tufts, tassels, bunches, bosses, knobs, &c., out of yarn or thread. Solution of riddles, enigmas, covert speeches, verbal puzzles and enigmatical questions. A game, which consisted in repeating verses, and as one person finished, another person had to commence at once, repeating another verse, beginning with the same letter with which the last speaker's verse ended, whoever failed to repeat was considered to have lost, and to be subject to pay a forfeit or stake of some kind. The art of mimicry or imitation. Reading, including chanting and intoning. |