How? or, Spare hours made profitable for boys and girls (1887)
Holbrook, Kennedy · New York, Worthington co. · leaf 318
e them,and while so doing manages to bend each rope double; that is, he brings the two ends of each together; whilestill holding them he contrives to slip a small elastic bandover the center of one, and bringing the middle of theother alongside of it, he slips the band over both, thustying them… … and the end marked B through the other, and these arethe ends he gives to the two persons to hold. 314 OTHER CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY AMUSEMENTS. If he now slips off the rubber band, the coat will fall;but each person will have both ends of the same rope inhis hand, and the mystery would be easily solved.…
Handicraft · Amusements
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