The art of amusing : being a collection of graceful arts, merry games, odd tricks, curious puzzles, and new charades : together with suggestions for private theatricals, tableaux, and all sorts of parlor and family amusements (1866)
Bellew, Frank, 1828-1888 · New York : Carleton ; London : S. Low · leaf 144
tothe practical regions of fact, I will proceed to inter-dooce to you that splendid anumile Saladin, theroyal Bengal tiger, from Botteny Bay, in the WestInjees. This wonderful creature measures sixteenfeet from the tip of the tail to the tip of the snout,and sixteen feet from the tip of the snout… … 126 THE ART OF AMUSING. scribed. At first we did not recognise the stub-tailed bull-terrier Snap, so completely was he disguised and bestriped with black paint, more toresemble a zebra, however, than a tiger. Snap, allunconscious of his new character, began frisking andcapering round, wagging his…
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