842 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



numbered stations arranged to represent a snake, the direction being 

 from head to tail. 



32. Game of Goose.' United States. 



Board, men, and spinning arrow ^ used instead of dice. The board 

 has ninety-nine numbered stations. 



33. Snake Game.^ United States. 



Board printed in colors with one hundred and twenty-two numbered 

 stations. 



The first game of this type published in the United States is said to 

 have been " The Mansion of Happiness," issued by Mr. S. B. Ives of 

 Salem, Massachusetts, about the year 1847, and said to have been 

 copied from an English game. Mr. Ives was the first publisher of 

 games as a business in this country. In 1861 Mr. Milton Bradley of 

 Springfield, Massachusetts, published the " Checkered Game of Life." 

 These were the forerunners of a large number of similar games in the 

 United States, among which the following are included in the collec- 

 tion of the University of Pennsylvania: "Steeple Chase"; "Yacht 

 Eace"; "Bicycle Eace"; "Messenger Boy"; "Eound the World,' 

 together with others with more or less fanciful titles invented in order 

 to secure the protection of copyright. 



The prototype of the boards in these and the preceding games (Nos. 

 28 to 32) is to be found in the Korean IS^yout circuit. 



The following foreign games of the foregoing type are contained in 

 the collection of the Museum of Archaeology and Paleontology of the 

 University of Pennsylvania.* 



»Cat. No. 16467, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. 



^ A square of cardboard, with the numbers from 1 to 6 arranged in a cii'cle, and a 

 metal arrow fastened to revolve on a pivot in the center. It and similar contrivances 

 are substituted on account of the prejudice against the use of the dice through 

 their association with gambling. 



3 Cat. No. 175656, U.S.N.M. Gift of Stewart Culin. 



■•The European specimens are in greater part the gift of Dr. H. Carrington Bolton. 

 See his paper, The Game of Goose, Journal of American Folklore, VIII, p. 145. 



