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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 271

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Now we will try another card puzzle. Cut apiece of card or paper in the shape of a horse-shoe,and mark on it the places for the nails as represented in the subjoined sketch. … THE ART OF AMUSING. 241 The puzzle is with two cuts to divide it into sixparts, each part containing one nail. Of course you cannot do it; we could not doit ourselves, and had to get the white mice to showus the way. Somehow or another we never can find out anything with half a dozen taper fingers…

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