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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 170

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