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 279
her, Wondering where she could be,Till he suddenly came upon her Mid those rocks that you all can see:In the road through the thicket below themi He found her in deadly strife,Trying to flee from the villain Who promised to make her his rzio. The father in terror shouted, Then the fiend, in his… … Tom Scott then addres&ed the jury, Be told them the case was clear,And he turned to the weeping woman To conceal an uprising tear;In his face there was just enough shadow To soften his bright blue eye,In his voice there was just enough sadnes To hint at a pain gone by. •Is she guilty ? he asked…
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