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 172
had cut out a sled, a wheelbarrow, and manufactured a dancing-pea. Thelatter he made by running a pin half way through apea, one end of which he stuck into a broken pieceof tobacco-pipe. He then threw his head back tillthe tobacco-pipe attained a perpendicular position, THE ART OF AMUSING. 149 when… … He likewise horrified us all by suddenly appearing with a hideous double row of protruding yellowteeth, which he coolly dropped into the palm of hishand, when he thought our feelings had been sufficiently outraged. They are only made of orange-peel, he explained. You just cut a slit there, and…
Amusements · Tricks
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