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and amusing modification of the old fashioned
play, known as, hot boiled beans and lery good
butter. We were at an elegant party a few
evenings since, when it was engaged in with
great zeal by a large company of married la-
dies and gentlemen, including wise lawyers,
doctors and judges. The game is played in
the following manner:
  d A player is sent out of the room, as hereto-
fore; but instead of hiding a bean for him to
find, the company think of a task to be per-



formed by him.   This task may be anything:        Shakespeare on the Military
Situation
to untie a ribbon, to sing a song, to displace
all manner of articles of furniture-the more     Is there any conceivable
situation of human
                                              P affairs, whether belonging
to public or private
fantastic and out of the way, the better,- life, which Shakespeare has not
described?
When they have decided what it is to be, the     H ow apt to ouir own times,
and thel recent de-
patient is summoned in. and has to set to work   h atings in Congres and
   the press, is the fol-
            patint s smmond i. ad hs tosetto  orklowing extract from the,
first scene in the first
to discern and perform   the work allotted to act of the first part of his
FKiug Henry VI.:"
him.  Instead of the hot and cold regulation,    Messenger.-My bonorable
lords,bealth tyon alt!
he is guided in his experiments by the sounds O       dlos or nlaugh toeryou
out ofmFrance.
of a piano or other musical instrument, play- Gaidne, Champaigne, Rblems,
Orleans.
             of a piano or                    Paris, Ga~~~~~~~~~ysors, Peiteters,
all are quite lost.
ed softly, or the reverse, in proportion to his    DuIe of Bedford.-What
sany't thou, man, before dead
                                                    Heory's corse?
success, or the want of it.                    Srak softly; or the lses of
those great town
     *                                        Will make him burst his tead,
and rise from death.
  Those who have never played at this game,     Duke of Gloster.-Ts Paris
lost? is Rouen yielded up?
                                                IfHenry were reealled to
life again.
can have no idea of the interest attached to it. These news would cause him
once more yield the ghost.
The tasks that may be divined and accom-        DukeofExctcr.-Howweretheyloot?
Whattreachery
                                                    wsai used?
plished, with no other clue than the threaten-     Meeiesgr.-No treachery
I bh  want of men and and
                                                    aloner,
ing or encouraging tones of the music, would     Among the solliers this
is muttered-
                                               That here you matotain several
factions
appear incredible.  The   complete bewilder- And, whilst a field should he
dispalobed and fought,
                                               You are disputing of yoor
generals.
ment of the guesser, on first entering the room, One wouid have lu'ingig
wars, with lite oust
asto what he is to do; his numerous     experi- Another would fly swidt,
hut wauteth wings;
           as0     0       numerous          ~~~~~~~A thir man thinks, without
expense at all.
ments, all wide of the mark: his first catch- By guileful fair words Ieace
may be obtained
                                               Awake, awake, English nohility
ing at a hint, and gradually following of it up, Let not sloth dim youer
honors, new hegot:
                                                Orpp'd ane the flower-de-luces
In your arms
with various intervening discouragements, till Of England's coat one half
is cut away
he has fulfilled his mission (as a player of or-
dinary intelligence usually does) furnish en-             Napoleon's Art
of War.



tertainment or a by no means unelevated des-  Bonaparte recast the art of
war. He made
cription.                                      no secret of his system. 
Many of the details
  Forfeits may be exacted in case of non-suc- of it were set forth at the
outset of his career.
                                               His pamphlet, styled "The
Supper of Beau-
cess. Their assistance, however, is not re- caire," was published skortly
after the sapture
quired to make the game interesting."      of Toulon. In that little
work, whilst striving
  Plays like this, which test and discipline to prove that the armies of
the republic must
                                                tiumph against their enemies,
foreign and do-
your minds while they at the same time afford mestic, he explains how it
should be brought
amusement, are much better than such games about; fortified places were to
be masked, not
"s Button, button," "Blind man's buff," and besieged;
gusad  of hteavd four poundwere tbe
others of this class which sre mer.lv finnry. I f he ricPd in tbe *sted *
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