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
In a little roadside cottage, half hid by shrubs and vines,A woman, old and feeble, on a faded couch reclines;Her face is sweet, but sorrow has left its imprint there.And her voice tells not the burden that her God hath bid her bear. As I drink the limpid water from the homely, dripping gourd,I…
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