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
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… … Fig. 57. The ring of the key should be made quite small, so as to allowthe barb of the arrow to pass throu<rh it with some difficulty, andas no one supposes that it can be taken out in any other manner,the trick seems the more difficult, as it is forbidden to bend thepasteboard, 106…
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