Games of skill, and conjuring: including draughts, dominoes, chess, morrice (1865)
London, New York, G. Routledge and sons · leaf 52
off the loose grains and make some remark aboutliking fair measure ; you then cover it with a hat, and at the sametime contrive to turn it right side upwards. Now raise your tincup, and having drawn the spectators attention to the fact thatthere is nothing under it, clap it down on the table with… … TELLING THE ITUaiBEE OF CAEDS BY THEIE WEIGHT. (PAGE 47.) Although a proficiency in games with cards is in our opinion amost pernicious accomplishment for youth, and one which cannotbe too severely reprobated, we do not consider sleight-of-handTKICKS with a pack of cards as at all objectionable,…
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