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| Shotting the Line | 93 |
| The Float | 93 |
| Reels or Winches | 94 |
| Reel Lines | 94 |
| Hooks | 94 |
| How to bait a Hook | 95 |
| Baits | 95 |
| To Bait with Greaves | 97 |
| To Scour and Preserve Worms | 97 |
| The Plummet | 97 |
| Plumbing the Depth | 97 |
| Landing-hook and Landing-net | 98 |
| Clearing Ring and Line | 98 |
| Drag-hook | 98 |
| Bank Runner | 98 |
| Live-bait Kettle | 99 |
| Disgorger | 99 |
| Angling Axioms | 99 |
| Salmon | 100 |
| Trout | 100 |
| Jack or Pike | 101 |
| Gudgeon | 103 |
| Roach | 104 |
| Dace | 105 |
| Perch | 106 |
| Grayling | 107 |
| Chub | 108 |
| Carp | 109 |
| Tench | 110 |
| Pope, or Ruff | 110 |
| Bream | 111 |
| Flounder | 111 |
| Eels | 112 |
| Stickleback and Minnow | 113 |
| Barbel | 114 |
| Natural Fly-fishing, or Dipping | 115 |
| Fly-fishing and Artificial Flies | 115 |
| Materials for making Flies | 115 |
| ARCHERY | 121 |
| The Long-bow | 122 |
| The Cross-bow | 122 |
| Feats of the Bow | 123 |
| Length of Bows and Arrows, and how used in Ancient Times | 124 |
| Marks for Shooting at | 124 |
| Equipment for Archery | 125 |
| Ancient Directions for Archery | 220 |
| Fourth Practice | 221 |
| Fifth Practice | 221 |
| Fort and Feeble | 222 |
| Drawing Cut | 222 |
| General Advice | 222 |
| FIVES | 223 |
| FOOT-BALL | 224 |
| GOLFING | 226 |
| GYMNASTICS | 228 |
| Introduction | 228 |
| Historical Memoranda | 229 |
| Modern Gymnastics | 230 |
| Walking | 230 |
| The Tip-toe March | 231 |
| Running | 232 |
| Jumping | 232 |
| Leaping | 233 |
| To climb up a Board | 234 |
| Climbing the Pole | 234 |
| Clim„ing t„eRope | 235 |
| Clim„ing Trees | 235 |
| The Giant Stride, or Flying Steps, and its capabilities | 235 |
| Parallel Bars | 241 |
| The Horizontal Bar | 243 |
| The Horse | 246 |
| The Swing | 249 |
| Throwing the Javelin | 253 |
| The Trapeze, Single and Double | 254 |
| Tricks and Feats of Gymnastics | 262 |
| HOCKEY | 265 |
| RACKETS | 268 |
| RIDING | 270 |
| The Horse | 271 |
| The Marks of Age in the Horse | 271 |
| The Paces of the Horse | 272 |
| Terms used by Horsemen | 274 |
| Form of the Horse | 274 |
| Varieties of the Horse suitable for Boys | 274 |
| The Accoutrements and Aids | 275 |
| Mounting | 277 |
| Dismounting | 278 |
| The Management of the Reins | 278 |
| The Seat | 279 |
| The Control of the Horse | 458 |
| Bullock’s-eye Experiment | 458 |
| The Camera Obscura | 458 |
| The Camera Lucida | 459 |
| The Magic Lantern | 460 |
| Painting the Slides | 460 |
| To exhibit the Magic Lantern | 461 |
| Effects of the Magic Lantern | 461 |
| Tempest at Sea | 461 |
| The Phantasmagoria | 462 |
| Dissolving Views | 462 |
| How to raise a Ghost | 462 |
| The Thaumatrope | 463 |
| The Bird in the Cage | 463 |
| Construction of the Phantasmacope | 464 |
| Curious Optical Illusions | 464, 465 |
| The Picture in the Air | 465 |
| Breathing Light and Darkness | 466 |
| To show that Rays of Light do not obstruct each other | 466 |
| Optics of a Soap-bubble | 467 |
| The Kaleidoscope | 467 |
| Simple Solar Microscope | 468 |
| Anamorphoses | 468 |
| The Cosmorama | 470 |
| Distorted Landscapes | 470 |
| PHOTOGRAPHY | 472 |
| How to make the Negative on Glass, using Collodion bromoiodized for Iron development | 472 |
| PNEUMATICS | 477 |
| Weight of the Air Proved by a pair of Bellows | 477 |
| The Pressure of the Air shown by a Wine-glass | 478 |
| Another Experiment | 478 |
| Elasticity of the Air | 478 |
| Reason for this | 479 |
| The Air-Pump | 479 |
| To prove that Air has Weight | 479 |
| To prove Air elastic | 480 |
| Sovereign and Feather | 480 |
| Air in the Egg | 480 |
| The Descending Smoke | 480 |
| The Soundless Bell | 481 |
| The Floating Fish | 481 |
| The Diving Bell | 482 |
| Experiments | 482, 484, 633 |
| Game I.—The Allgaier Gambit | 635 |
| Game II. | 635 |
| Game I.—The Bishop’s Gambit | 636 |
| Game II. | 636 |
| The Gambit refused | 638 |
| Game I. | 638 |
| Game II. | 639 |
| The Centre Gambit | 639 |
| Game I. | 639 |
| Variation A. on Black’s 3rd Move | 640 |
| Game II. | 640 |
| The Queen’s Gambit | 641 |
| Game I. | 641 |
| Variation A. on Black’s 3rd Move | 641 |
| Game II. | 642 |
| THE YOUNG CONJURER | 643 |
| Sleight of Hand | 645 |
| The Flying Shilling | 645 |
| Another Method | 646 |
| The Beads and Strings | 646 |
| To get a Ring out of a Handkerchief | 647 |
| To tie a Knot in a Handkerchief which cannot be drawn tight | 647 |
| The Three Cups | 648 |
| To tie a Handkerchief round your Leg, and get it off without untying the Knot | 648 |
| The Magic Bond | 649 |
| The Old Man and his Chair | 649 |
| To tie a Knot on the Left Wrist without letting the Right Hand approach it | 651 |
| The Handcuffs | 651 |
| To pull a String through your Button-hole | 652 |
| The Cut String restored | 652 |
| The Gordian Knot | 653 |
| The Knot loosened | 653 |
| To put Nuts into your Ear | 654 |
| To crack Walnuts in your Elbow | 654 |
| To take Feathers out of an empty Handkerchief | 654 |
| Tricks requiring Special Apparatus | 654 |
| The Die Trick | 655 |
| The Penetrative Pence | 656 |
| The Doll Trick | 657 |
| The Flying Coins | 657 |
| The Vanished Groat | 658 |
| The Restored Document | 658 |
| The Magic Rings | 658 |
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