WHAT SHALL WE DO NOW?

A PUEBLO SETTLEMENT

(Frontispiece)

WHAT SHALL WE
DO NOW?

Five Hundred Games and Pastimes

A BOOK OF SUGGESTIONS FOR
CHILDREN'S GAMES AND
EMPLOYMENTS

BY

DOROTHY CANFIELD

AND OTHERS

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1907, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
October, 1907

All rights reserved

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PREFACE

This book has been made in the hope that the question which forms itstitle, "What shall we do now?" may come to be put less frequently. Itis so easy for children to ask it, so hard for grown-up persons withmany other matters to think about to reply to it satisfactorily.

In the following pages, which have something to say concerning most ofthe situations in which children find themselves, at home or in thecountry, out of doors or in, alone or in company, a variety of answerswill be found. No subject can be said to be exhausted; but the book isperhaps large enough. Everything which it contains has been indexed soclearly that a reader ought to be able to find what he wants in amoment. Moreover, by way both of supplying any deficiencies and ofgiving each copy of the book a personal character, an appendix ofblank and numbered leaves (with a few spaces in the index) has beenadded, in which the owner may record such omitted games andemployments as he has found good.

There are, of course, many fortunate girls and boys who do not requireany help whatever, who always know what to do now, and do it. For themsome sections of this book may have little value. It is for thatgreater number of less resourceful children who whenever time isbefore them really are in need of counsel and hints, that it has beenprepared.

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