[Gutenberg 37165] • Games Without Music for Children

[...] Guessing Game.-When the object to be weighed has been chosen, a number of children are allowed to come out and hold it in turn, and say what they think is its weight. As the object is handed to the first child, the teacher says: Can you tell the weight of this? Mind you do not guess amiss. Each child takes the object in its hand and guesses. The article is then weighed, and the child who has guessed most nearly its correct weight is allowed to choose the next object for weighing, and to call out the children who are to guess. He hands it to the first child, repeating the words of[...].