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 The articles forfeited are taken charge of by the lady of the house, who is generally mistress of ceremonies in the game, or one of the company delegated by her to receive them; and when they are all received, some other person is appointed to order what each must do to redeem them. This person sits or kneels beside the holder of the forfeits, placing her head in her lap, face downwards, and the holder then raises each forfeit above the head of the kneeler, and inquires what the owner must do before it can be restored to him. One or other of the following, or something of the same sort, is then named, the performance of which is necessary to entitle the owner to his forfeited property.

1. Sing a song, or tell a story.

2. Recite a piece of poetry.

3. Kneel to the prettiest in the room.

4. Kiss the one you love best.

5. Compose two or four lines in rhyme.

6. Propose a conundrum.

7. Relate an anecdote.

8. Repeat a Scottish proverb.

9. Stand with your face to the wall till some asks you to sit down.

10. Stand in the middle of the room, and first make a woful face, and then a merry one.

11. Kiss yourself in the looking-glass.

12. Sing the musical scale.

13. Kiss the four corners of the room.

14. Count twenty backwards rapidly.

15. Mention the name of some remarkable person, and relate an anecdote of him.

16. Walk round the room, and kiss your shadow in each corner of it. If you laugh, pay another forfeit.

17. Repeat whatever you are told, however difficult; or pay another forfeit.

18. Keep a serious countenance for five minutes, whatever may be said or done to make you smile: a forfeit if you don't

19. Give a comic recitation.

20. Laugh in one corner of the room, cry in a second, yawn in a third, and sing in a fourth.

21. Stand on a chair, and perform whatever motions you are told without laughing.