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Updated: May 18, 2025
He stood for a time and watched with much amusement a game of blind-man's-buff colin-maillard the little beggars called it, but if the name was different, the play was the same that Paul had known in his own boyhood at Verdayne Place. Many fine ships were sailing along the lake's shore, navigated by brave mariners of eight and ten.
When a point of semi-exhaustion was reached, a story was called for, and the nautical pastor at once launched into oceans of imagination and fancy, in which he bid fair to be wrecked and drowned. During the recital of this the falling of a pin would have been heard, if there had been such a thing as a pin at Pitcairn to fall. Last, but not least, came blind-man's-buff.
Hers was in May, and was "kept" in the house, with big fires and a tea-table crowned with a three-tiered iced cake, and blind-man's-buff and turn-the-trencher in the evening. She recalled wild contests with an imperious little boy, who could never conquer her except by stooping to it; and the self-conscious silliness of their behaviour to each other when they grew from children into boy and girl.
"'Oh, no! said Queen May politely; 'my faithful subject, we will not let you make yourself so miserable. "'Oh, I don't mind! cried Eric; 'really, you know, I should like it! "I'll hold him for you! cried several boys at once. "'Quite as if they liked it, whispered the girls. "But Queen May interposed, and said the court should break up and go to blind-man's-buff.
After dinner, too, the young folks would play at blind-man's-buff and hide-and-seek; and it was amusing to see them tangled among the briers, and to hear a fine romping girl now and then squeak from among the bushes.
But now we are settled in England, I have a wish to study English society. 'Disappointing, I assure you; dinners heavy, dancing boorish, intrigue a blind-man's-buff. We've been over it all before! 'We have. 'Admired, I dare say. You won't be understood. 'I like my countrymen. 'The women have good looks of the ungarnished kind. The men are louts. 'They are brave.
After dinner my friend would dress very carefully before the looking-glass, and drive off to see some neighbour possessed of two or three pretty daughters. He would flirt serenely and unconcernedly with one of them, play blind-man's-buff with them, return home rather late and promptly fall into a heroic sleep.
The other was blind-man's-buff on a new plan: several of the girls, sometimes as many as twenty, being blinded at once, and pursuing a single one, who rang a hand-bell to indicate her whereabouts. This was very funny; the bell-girl keeping just beyond their reach, and drawing them after her in a huddled group, so that they sometimes tumbled over one another and lay sprawling.
Between the hours of teaching, ten minutes are allowed for play or rest. The little boys play at Demon-Shadows or at blind-man's-buff or at some other funny game: they laugh, leap, shout, race, and wrestle, but, unlike European children, never quarrel or fight.
"In a few minutes a strange change began to come over them all. A great game of 'blind-man's-buff' was going on, when suddenly several of the girls put themselves into very stiff, solemn attitudes, just like old maids, and said, 'Really, they thought they were almost afraid they could not play any more.
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