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 327
n seen naadles, but bouldly assartThat the naadle in front of me there takes thepins! O sweet Cleopathera ! Im sorry youre dead ; An whin lavin this wonderful naadle behind,Had ye thought of bequeathin a spool of yourthread And yer thimble an scissors, it would havebeen kind. But pace to your… … (Permission of T last the cottage was rented That vacant had stood so long,And the silent gloom of its chambers Gave way to mirth and song.Ever since the sheriff sold it, And poor Dobson moved away,Not a soul had crossed the threshold Till the strangers came in May;Then the mold on the steps of…
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