Games of skill, and conjuring: including draughts, dominoes, chess, morrice (1865)
London, New York, G. Routledge and sons · leaf 37
only move forward like ordinary draughtsmen, andthey are placed on the four white squares on their players side ofthe board. The game is similar to that played on the cross-shapedboard. The player of the geese endeavours to block the fox up ina corner ; and the player of the fox tries to push his… … As the multifarious performances of the Nimble jugglers, that deceive the eye, have in all ages been especial favourites of the people, we cannot dobetter than prelude our conjuring tricks with a brief notice of theearly history of the deceptive art. The origin of legerdemain is lost in its great…
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