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 75
he enlightenment of those who didnot, we had to travel all the way to fairy-land, sothat it was some time before we got back to vegetable flowers—a subject on which we felt not a littleanxious to be enlightened, as we saw therein something that might interest our friends who meet bythe fireside and… … ROSE IN PROCESS OF MAKING. stuck upon a skewer, and surrounded by a fewgreen leaves, and behold a most exquisite whiterose, perfect enough to deceive the eye in broaddaylight at three feet distance. The above sketchwill explain the whole mystery at once. On the same principle a marigold may be cut…
Amusements · Tricks
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