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 299
r harpoon nor bomb,crumbling timbers nor showers of flaming brands,did him aught of injury, beyond the scorching ofhis hair and eyebrows, and the blistering of hishands and face. Twas a heroic deed. Did everfield of battle, wreck, or martyrdom, show abraver ? No act in all the list of song and…
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