Dear Charley—

Orion has done his work first rate.

I wanted Wm the Conqueror to experiment on—you & Annie can do the same. I made a column of dates on a pine board—1066 to 1087—& we tried the game this morning. It went very well.

[in the diagram below, the rows of dots and the center column of dates are enclosed in rectangular boxes]

R				RED (10 each)
. . . . .				. . . . . . . . . .
B		1066		BLUE—8 each
. . . . .		. . . . . . . .		. . . . . . . . . . . .
Bl		1067		BLACK—5
. . . . .		. . . . . . . . . .		. . . . . . . . . . .
Gr		&c		GREEN—3
. . . .		. . . . . . .		. . . . . . . . . . .
		&c
		. . . . . .

in a box on the left: Black-pin’s side.

in a box on the right: Brass pin’s side.

For accession of a king, I count one I stick one pin under the date, & one pin in the red row up in my corner of the board (a red hole being worth 10 points)—thus I score 11.

For end of king’s reign, 1 pin in the date & 1 in red row—11.

For birth or death of a king, or any very distinguished subject, 1 pin in the date, & 1 in Black——————6 points.

For a battle, 1 pin in date & one in blue——— 9 points.

For discoveries, inventions, earthquakes, memorable other calamities, &c &c, 1 in date & 1 in green————————— 4 points.

For all ordinary events, 1 pin in the date——— 1 point.

When the game is finished it is quickly & easily counted.

Kings & battles are the great landmarks of history—thus I try to make it worth the pupil’s while to secure those, they count so much.

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In the chart there will be only one, or maybe two events printed opposite each date. That’s for the full outline game, using all the kings.

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But for a detail game, where the players confine themselves to a single king, the umpire will sit with the book in his hand, not the chart, & all the events of that reign will be compressed into 4 or 3 or 4 large pages of small type, & each event numbered: 1, 2, 3, 4, &c.—10 events to each year.

I want 10 pinholes attached to each date (under it, for instance),—& divided in the middle by a vertical line: If you are playing answer No 6, the umpire will tell you to put your pin in the first hole to the right of the centre line, &c. The position of your pin will always show what answer it represents.

the paragraph above was written around a diagram of the game board, with a vertical line on each side and one down the middle, which included the following dates:

1 0 6 ◊ | ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅

 ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ | ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅

1 0 6 7 |

   ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ | ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅

⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ | ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅

1 0 | 6 9

⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ | ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅

1 0 | 7 0

⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ | ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅

1 0 | 71