Fagots for the fireside: one hundred and fifty games and amusements for evenings at home and social parties (1894)
Lucretia P. Hale. · leaf 93
94 FAGOTS FOR THE FIRESIDE, Comet Trick. " Lay out on the table any convenient number of cards, in a form supposed to represent a comet ; thus : — … being careful to make a distinct separation be- tween the head and the tail of your figure. I will then go out of the room, and one of you must fix upon any number you choose, greater than the number of qards in the tail, and then count that number upon the cards in this way. Supposing the number…
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