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eatable candle-ends, 152;
how to swallow a flame, ib.;
to pull a string through a button-hole, ib.;
the cut string restored, ib.;
the musical snail, 153;
to extract a cork from a bottle without touching the cork, ib.;
the bottle-fountain, ib.;
to place wine under a hat, and to drink it without touching the hat, ib.
Conjuring with and without special apparatus, 167-178;
the transposable money, 167;
the penetrative coin, ib.;
the phantom coin, 168;
the coin melted and restored, ib.;
the flying coins, 169;
the box, the halfpence, and the die, 170;
to pick a marked shilling out of a hat covered with a handkerchief, 171;
burning the handkerchief, 172;
the augmented coins, ib.;
to guess the two ends of a line of dominoes, 174;
to get a ring out of a handkerchief, 175;
Herr Frikell's gold-fish trick, 176;
Houdin's cups and balls, 177
(and see Card Tricks and Combinations)
Consequences, a parlour game, 18
Conveyances, a parlour game, 19
Costermonger's puzzle, 100
Crack loo, 56
Crambo, 19;
dumb crambo, 21
"Crandall's toys," 51
Cremer on conjuring, 151
Cribbage, 152
Croquet, Carpet, 56;
Parlour, 74
Cross, Magic, 95
Cross questions and crooked answers, 20
Cryptography, 197
Cup and ball, 56
"Cupid is coming," 20
Cupolette, 56
Cups and balls, Houdin's tricks with, 177
Cushion-dance, 20
Cut-water, 57
D
Dancer, Hydraulic, 61;
pith, 76
Dancing Highlander, 57;
pea, 57
Dart and target, 58
(see Puff and Dart)
Dart, Paper, 72
Dartelle, 58
Definitions (parlour game), 21;
(fireside game), 205
Demon bottle, 58
Diamond word-puzzles, 196
D'Israeli, Isaac, his skill in anagrams, 189, 190
Dominoes, Tricks with, 174
Double acrostics, 212;
example written by her Majesty Queen Victoria, ib.
Drawing-room archery, 59
Drawing-room racquets, 94;
the Victoria puzzle, ib.;
the artillery puzzle, ib.;
the six rows puzz br/> Tableaux vivants, 45
Target and dart, 58
Targetta, 87
Teetotum, 88
Think of a number, 46
"Thirty-four" (American puzzle), 97
Thirty-six, The magic, 99
This and that, 46
Throwing light, a parlour game, 47
Tit-tat-to, 85
Toilet, a parlour game, 47
Toy games and toy-making, 51-89;
bricks and building materials, 51;
"Crandall's toys," animal album, or talking picture-book, 52;
Æolian harp, ib.;
animated serpent, ib.;
annulette, 53;
apple-mill, ib.;
apple-woman, ib.;
bandilor, or quiz, 54;
battledore and shuttlecock, ib.;
bell and hammer, or "schimmel," ib.;
bird-whistles, ib.;
birds, beasts, and fishes, ib.;
bombardment, ib.;
bottle imps, ib.;
Brother Jonathan, 55;
camera (miniature), ib.;
cannonade, or castle bagatelle, ib.;
carpet croquet, 56;
common whistle, ib.;
crack loo, ib.;
cup and ball, ib.;
cupolette, ib.;
cut-water, 57;
dancing Highlander, ib.;
dancing pea, ib.;
dart and target, 58;
dartelle, ib.;
decimal game, ib.;
demon bottle, ib.;
drawing-room archery, 59;
Dutch racquets, ib.;
Enfield skittles, ib.;
flying cones, ib.;
French and English, 60;
gas balloons, ib.;
German balls, ib.;
German billiards, 61;
hat measurement, ib.;
homeward bound, or "patchesi," ib.;
hydraulic dancers, ib.;
immovable card, ib.;
Indian skittle-pool, ib.;
Jack-in-the-box, 62;
Japanese fan, ib.;
jerk straws, ib.;
le diable, ib.;
magic fan, ib.;
magic figure, 64;
magic flute, ib.;
magician of Morocco, ib.;
magnetic swan, 65;
magnetic wand, ib.;
magnifying pinhole, 66;
mechanical Bucephalus, ib.;
microscope (toy), ib.;
mocking call, 67;
moorish fort, ib.;
navette, ib.;
nine pins, 68;
noughts and crosses, ib.;
obedient soldier, ib.;
palada, ib.;
paper toys: bellows, boat, boxes, Chinese junk, dart, hat, parachute, purses, 69-74;
parlour bowls, 74;
parlour croquet, ib.;
parlour quoits, ib.;
patchesi, or homeward bound, 75;
Pegasus in flight, ib.;
pith dancer, 76;
prancing horse, ib.;
prophet, or sibyl, ib.;
puff and dart, 77;
push-pin, 78;
puzzle-wit, ib.;
quintain, ib.;
quiz, ib.;
race game, ib.;
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Transcriber's Notes

Minor punctuation errors fixed on pages 5, 31, 56, 90, 92, 95, 97, 99, 103, 112, 121, 134, 164, 179, 180, 184, 186, 194, 206, 207, 224, and page 3 of the ads.

Inconsistencies in hyphenation and original spellings have been retained, except in the case of these apparent typographical errors.

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Page 5, "Robbed" changed to "Bobbed." ("Brother, I'm Bobbed")

Page 6, "Ninepins" changed to "Nine pins."

Page 6, "Soldiers" changed to "Soldier." (Obedient Soldier)

Page 7, "105" changed to "125." (Ranter go Round 125)

Page 8, "EcartÉ" changed to "ÉcartÉ." (ÉcartÉ 126)

Page 10, "meerschaun" changed to "meerschaum." (...or a meerschaum pipe to a young lady.)

Page 43, "interspered" changed to "interspersed." (...the playing of which may be interspersed...)

Page 95, "neecessary" changed to "necessary." (...it is hardly necessary to say...)

Page 99, "piagonally" changed to "diagonally." (...numbers counted, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally...)

Page 106, "mutiply" changed to "multiply." (...should be requested to multiply the number...)

Page 173, "de-deliberately" changed to "deliberately." (...say eight, deliberately counting them...)

Page 177, "CUNJURING" changed to "CONJURING." (HOUDIN'S CUPS AND BALLS CONJURING TRICKS.)

Page 3 of ads, "ARCHITECTUR" chsnged to "ARCHITECTURE." (WONDERS OF ARCHITECTURE.)





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