BUFF SAYS "BAFF"

This is a game in which no one is allowed to smile or laugh. All the
players, except one, sit in a row or half circle; one goes out of the
room and returns with a stick or poker in his hand, and a very grave
and solemn face. He is supposed to have just returned from a visit
to Buff. The first player asks him: "Where do you come from?" "From
Buff." The next asks: "Did he say anything to you?" To which the reply
is:

"Buff said 'Baff,'
And gave me this staff,
Telling me neither to smile nor to laugh.
Buff says 'Baff,' to all his men,
And I say 'Baff' to you again.
And he neither laughs nor smiles,
In spite of all your cunning wiles,
But carries his face with a very good grace,
And passes his staff to the very next place."

If he can repeat all this without laughing, he delivers up his staff
to some one else, and takes his seat; but if he laughs, or even
smiles, he pays a forfeit before giving it up.

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BLIND MAN'S BUFF

In the olden times this game was known by the name of "Hood-man