The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 56
wouldat once start up again. The figureof a dancing master thus mounted iscalled the bowing beau. 5. The Prancing Horse. This isa figure of a horse having fixed to ita weight by a bent wire, as inFig. 5. If the horses hind legs beplaced on the edge of a table, theweight being beneath it, he will… … Fig. 6. wine-glass. The corks of the bottlesare sharpened at the top to an edge,and the knives and wine-glass ofwater are balanced on them as shownin Fig. 6, which can be done aftera few trials. Any small, heavy ob-ject, such as a small key, is nowtied to the end of a thread and low-ered into the…
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