How to amuse an evening party : a complete collection of home recreations .. (1869)
New York : Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 47
petus the cutter has now acquired will twist the string to a greater extent than in the first instance ; by continuing to pull and relax the string adroitly, the cutter may be made to revolve with great rapidity. The name water-cutter has been applied to this toy, because one mode of playing the… … THE BANDILOR. The bandilor is a toy made of hard wood, resembling a pulley with a very deep groove ; round this groove a piece of string is wound. To set the bandilor in action, the end of the string must be hfeld between the finger and thumb, and the toy allowed to fall ; by this means the string…
Indoor games · Entertaining · Amusements
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