Book of riddles and five hundred home amusements : containing a choice and curious collection of riddles, charades, enigmas, rebuses, anagrams, transpositions, conundrums, amusing puzzles, queer sleights, recreations in arithmetic, fireside games, and natural magic, embracing entertaining amusements in magnetism, chemistry, second sight, and simple recreations in science for family and social pastime (1863)
Frikell, Wiljalba, 1818-1903, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 112
ut of pasteboard an arrow, as seen in Fig. 54, a key, asin Fig. 55, a heart as in Fig. 56. The heart must be cut throughin three or four diff^erent places as in the plate. These threeobjects can be put together in such a manner (Fig. 57) that itwill be very diflScult to separate them, unless a… … Fig. 54. Fig. 55. Fig. 56. pass one end of the arrow througli it, without breaking the paste-board. Then fold the arrow together in the middle, so that onepoint shall fit accurately upon the other, bring the loop back intoits former position, drawing it out of the ring of the key, whichthen glides…
Riddles · Amusements
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