The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 51
an appearance on the screen—which, by the way, was a sheet always furnished from thehousehold store, for probably the exhibitors, from past expe-rience, had discovered the futility of attempting to provideclean sheets for their evenings entertainments, when the coldseason tempted them to employ… … Fig. 1. FROM AN OLD PRINT. of the exhibitors, that produced that so-called delightful enter-tainment for inquiring youth. Nor can I forget that part oftheir honorarium was summat hot, for, as one remarked, itwas dry work, and the other that talking necessitated theoperation known as wetting ones…
Amusements · Games · Sports
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