Excerpt from The Mary Dawson Game Book: A Manual of Original Games and Guessing Contests for Entertainments of Every Description and for All AgesAs he concludes the rhyme the pencil is brought down. The box in which it falls is supposed to con tain the treasure which is marked in it. This is a simple make-believe game, but little people, to whom make-believe is the most fascinating thing in the world, will play it until there are no more boxes from which to draw imaginary contents.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.