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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 270

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mechanical notions. The boomerang wehave already introduced to our readers, and some ofthe other contraptions we shall now proceed to explain. So scare up all the cards you can, and bringout your army of scissors. THE ART OF AMUSING. 239 One card puzzle we have often tried, and withwhich most… … 240 THE ART OF AMUSING. These five pieces you put together so as to makea cross like Figure 4. If you cannot solve the problem, look at thefollowing cut, and you will cease to be puzzled.

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