Popular pastimes for amusement and instruction : being a standard work on games, plays, magic, and natural phenomena suitable for all occasions : containing parlor games, charming tableaux, tricks of magic, charades and conundrums, curious puzzles, phrenology and mind reading, palmistry or how to read the hand, humorous and pathetic recitations, dialogues, etc., etc. : including the delightful art of entertaining, the whole forming a charming treasury of pastimes for the home, public schools and academies, lodges, social gatherings, Sunday schools, etc., etc. (1901)
Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Philadelphia : National Publishing Co. · leaf 135
owed out. Place one endof the whistle so made in the mouth, and 114 MRtOR the opposite end just under the surface ofa glass of water. By then blowing, thebird-like notes, as with the quill and theteapot, will be obtained. These whistlesmay be made of metal or glass as well aswood. ANIMATED SERPENT.… … ANIMATED SERPENT. the material the form of a coiled-up ser-pent ; cut out the serpent with the pointof a sharp pen-knife, and fasten a threadthrough the tip of the tail. When this isdone, fasten to the mantelpiece, or to someboard to be placed thereon, the other endof the thread, taking care that…
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