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 58
Fig. 5. … This trick has caused much astonishment when publicly exhi-bited, although its principle could be explained by every housewifewho, before pickling,* tries the strength of the brine by observ-ing if an egg will float on it. Which is the Boiled Egg ? Boil an egg hard ; when quite cold place it among…
Riddles · Amusements
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