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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 249

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Y LEADERS. shaded our cottage, my grandsire, an old man,was telling of Marathon, and Leuctra ; and how,in ancient times, a little band of Spartans,in a defile of the mountains, had withstood awhole army. I did not then know what warwas; but my cheeks burned, I knew not why,and I clasped the knees… … SPARTACUS. Romans landed on our coast. I saw the breastthat had nourished me trampled by the hoofof the war-horse ; the bleeding body of myfather flung amidst the blazing raf/ers of ourdwelling ! To-day I killed a man in the rena; and,when I broke his helmet-clasps, behold ! he wasmy friend. He…

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