This is only a trick, you take off your shoes and jump over _them_, not over the chairs.
14. Act the part of a dumb servant. If it is a lady who is redeeming the forfeit, she must apply to a gentleman for a place, and if a gentleman, he applies to a lady. Whoever is engaging the servant asks seven questions, all of which are answered by dumb motions. Example: How do you dust? How do you sew? How do you open the hall door? How do you blacken boots? etc.
15. Ask a question that cannot be answered in the negative.
(The question is “What does Y E S spell?”)
(Hold your ankle while you walk across the room.)
(Try this when a number of forfeits have to be redeemed. Eight people are blindfolded and led to position. Another of the company plays the lanciers. As those who are blindfolded will surely make ridiculous errors, everybody will heartily laugh. This forfeit creates much merriment.)
20. Make a three-minute address, in which every word commences with the same letter.
21. Tell who wrote the Star Spangled Banner.
23. Tell who wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
24. Walk out of the room with two legs but walk back with six.
(When you return, bring a chair with you.)
Any verse that is familiar counting as example:
Shuffle-Shoon (one) and (two) Amber-Locks (three) Sit (four) together (five) building (six) blocks (seven) Shuffle-Shoon (eight) is (nine) old (ten) and (eleven) gray (twelve) Amber-Locks (thirteen) a (fourteen) little (fifteen) child (sixteen) But (seventeen) together (eighteen) at (nineteen) their (twenty) play (twenty-one) Age (twenty-two) and (twenty-three) youth (twenty-four) are (twenty-five) reconciled (twenty-six) And (twenty-seven) with (twenty-eight) sympathetic (twenty-nine) glee (thirty) Build (thirty-one) their (thirty-two) castles (thirty-three) fair (thirty-four) to (thirty-five) see (thirty-six).
26. Spread out a newspaper and stand two persons on it, so that they cannot possibly touch each other.
(To accomplish this put the newspaper on the floor, half on one side of the door, and half on the other. A person stands on each piece, and the door is shut between them.)
32. Repeat rapidly either of the following tongue twisters.
Susan shineth shoes and socks; socks and shoes shines Susan. She ceaseth shining shoes and socks, for shoes and socks shock Susan.