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 256
Camera led the conversation in our corner of the THE ART OF AMUSING. 227 room to the subject of optical illusions, when someone of course suggested the hat experiment. Thereis probably nothing the proportions of which are sodeceptive as a hat. Reader, if you have nevertried the experiment, take a… … Aunty Delluvian, the first to try, took the stickand boldly measured off a distance of between twoand three feet, and utterly laughed to scorn themoderate persons who satisfied themselves withten inches. After each of the measurements wasmarked with a pencil, and the hat itself put beside 228 THE…
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