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 90
y. (2.) Place the coin on the table, then,turning round, take it up with the otherhand. (3.) Place the candle on his head, tak-ing care that no mirror is in the room. (4.) The first person seats himself in theothers lap. (5). The last persons left elbow. (6.) Push the cork into the bottle.(7.) (8.)… … 12. ANSWER TO THE DISHONEST SERVANTS. The following is one of the several waysin which the difficulty might have beenovercome : Two servants go over first, onereturns ; two servants go over again, oneagain returning with the boat; two of themasters next go over, and a master andone of the…
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