How to behave and how to amuse. A handy manual of etiquette and parlor games (1895)
Sandison, George Henry, 1850- comp · New York, The Christian Herald · leaf 122
THE THREE MATCHES, 127 them on the table, the angle upward, and propthem up by leaning another match against them,the whole forming a tripod, as shown in the fig-ure. Now hand a fourth match to one of the com-pany, and request him to lift with it the otherthree from the table. Such is the problem… … outward till the third falls with its upper end onthe one you hold. You lower this till the end ofthe single match passes within the angle formedby the juncture of the two first. If you then raisethe match you hold in your hand, the three otherswill ride astride upon it, the single match on theone…
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