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usually efficient way, doing a good job of it. There was a lot of ping-pong of all varieties from singles to mixed doubles and "Parkyakarkus," the latter being the doubles where you alternate receiving the ball and the partners are falling all over each other to get out of the way.
Another game new to me was played this way. There were two teams of say seven players each, and each team had a table where it stood and on the table was blank paper. Half way between the tables was a vacant chair where the referee stood with a bunch of cards on which were written names of various objects, one on each card. A player from each side came up to the referee to whom simultaneously the referee exhibited a card. Each player ran back to his table and drew the object for his mates. When one of the them named it correctly, the drawer rushed to the chair at the referee and sat down. The first to get there and seated won a point for his team. It was a helluva lot of fun and some of the pictures drawn were choice. One word was "Hitler" and Becky Moore attempted it for our side. The rare thing was that we didn't even realize her picture was intended to represent a human being to say nothing of a specific human. Needless to say we lost that point, Becky's art is not one of her strong points as she attempted to represent a vacuum cleaner and we guessed everything from a stove to a kitchen sink and lost that point too. With my cartooning background, the game was right up my alley and I won every point I handled.
Another good game was "Tea kettle" or "Percolator" - an old one I guess and familiar but quite a bit of fun. One player leaves room, the rest select a verb and the player returns and has to guess it by asking everyone questions about it that can be answered "yes" or "no". The game gets its name from fact every one uses the word "teakettle" or "percolate" in asking questions,

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