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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 355

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ty ; indeed, you can take it close to your audience and the trick wiU not be seen through. You can now cause to appear or disappear any number of articles which are of a hght nature, much to the amusement of the company. This is the same kind of bag that Wyman, Blitz, and other magicians use to… … tail of the serpent suspended by a bit of thread over a lamp, the heated

Amusements · Amateur theater · Charades

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