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until one of the competitors fails to produce a name which shall chime 

 with his adversary's. 



Riddles are also proposed and a failure to expound them incurs 

 forfeits of a fanciful kind. Both men and women engage in this amuse- 

 ment and the forfeits are adapted to each sex, much in the manner that we 

 find them in the British game of a similar nature. 



9 



Penang, 1829. 



Revised, January 1836. 



