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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 321

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teof white paper on door bearing the name of Swab. Enter colored man,* with his face well spottedwith whitewash, who rings at door of fashionable house. * The usual way of making a colored man is by blacking the face with burntcork; but as gentlemen at evening parties sometimes object to undergoing… … Irish servant appears with her sleeves rolled upand her dress pinned in the form of a dress-coatbehind. She turns up her nose at darkey, who

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