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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 333

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Amusements · Amateur theater · Charades

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