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 278
his love, his life,And vows that he woos with honor, That hell make her his darling wifeBut the old folks hearts are heavy, For they see that he se^as not true;In spite of his words soft spoken, They fear that their child will rue. One morning they found a letter,On the open Bible it lay ;It asked… … ** Twas the old, oft-told sad storyOf a womans unbounded love,A tale of a cruel deception, Of a fiend that no tears could move.At last she was left to wander. Thousands of miles awayProm her childhood home and loved ones,With no place her poor head to lay. 245 Two miners then sprang beside lilm And…
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