All players except one are furnished with a
string of jingly Christmas bells which they wear around their
shoulders. If these strings of bells are not easy to get, each
guest may be given just one bell which hangs on to a string.
He wears this around his neck, and it is this bell which guides
the blind man to the quarry. One player is blindfolded, and
it is his business to catch some other player and guess who
he is. When he succeed in catching a player he asks him to say,
“Merry Christmas,” and if he guesses correctly in
one guess who his victim is, that victim must give up his bell
to the blind man, put on the blindfolder and stay blind until
he can catch and identify the player.
There never was a more Christmas-y sounding game! Children invariably
love the jingle bells. |
