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So Blind Man's Buff was given up and something quieter tried—Dumb Crambo, I think.

If the Moslem must have tribute, make men your tribute-money, Send idle drones to tease them within their hives of honey, is the commonest of crambo, and Must go, like all the others, the proud Moor’s bed to sleep in— In all the rest they’re useless, and nowise worth the keeping, is reminiscent of the pantomime days of our youth.

Crambo, kram′bo, n. a game in which one gives a word to which another finds a rhyme: rime.—ns.

Things look their most unexpected, masquerade as other things, get queer unintelligible allegoric meanings, leaving you to guess what it all means, a constant dumb crambo of trees, flowers, animals, houses, and moonlight.

The portraits on the sordid walls were very like the crambo in the minds of ordinary men—very like the motley pictures of the Famous hung up in your parlour, O my Public!