The sociable, or, One thousand and one home amusements : containing acting proverbs, dramatic charades, acting charades, or drawing-room pantomimes, musical burlesques, tableaux vivants, parlor games, games of action, forfeits, science in sport, and parlor magic, and a choice collection ofcurious mental and mechanical puzzles, &c., &c. : illustrated with nearly three hundred engravings and diagrams, the whole being a fund of never-endingentertainment (1858)
Arnold, George, 1834-1865 · New York : Dick & Fitzgerald Publishers · leaf 284
211 ■WTSTEB SlYESHSQ AMUSEMENT. •^t? ■ n. No piece must be put between two of the adversary's, stand- ing in a right line. … HINTS TO PLATERS. No advantage will be gained, but, on the contrary, frequently a loss, by throwing back one only of the adversary's pieces, as the piece thrown back may be placed so as more readily to obtain a much better position than that thrown back from. As no piece is allowed to move…
Amusements · Amateur theater · Charades
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