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قراءة كتاب The Art of Amusing Being a Collection of Graceful Arts, Merry Games, Odd Tricks, Curious Puzzles, and New Charades. Together with Suggestions for Private Theatricals, Tableaux, and All Sorts of Parlor and Family Amusements.
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The Art of Amusing Being a Collection of Graceful Arts, Merry Games, Odd Tricks, Curious Puzzles, and New Charades. Together with Suggestions for Private Theatricals, Tableaux, and All Sorts of Parlor and Family Amusements.
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The Art of Amusing.
A collection of graceful arts, merry games, and odd tricks, intended to amuse everybody, and enable all to amuse everybody else. Full of suggestions for private theatricals, tableaux, charades, and all sorts of parlor and family amusements. With nearly 150 illustrative pictures. ⁂ Price $2.00.
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THE art of AMUSINGBY Frank Bellew
CARLETON, Publisher, NEW YORK.
the
Art of Amusing.
BEING A COLLECTION OF GRACEFUL ARTS, MERRY GAMES, ODD
TRICKS, CURIOUS PUZZLES, AND NEW CHARADES. TOGETHER
WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR PRIVATE THEATRICALS,
TABLEAUX, AND ALL SORTS OF PARLOR
AND FAMILY AMUSEMENTS.
A VOLUME INTENDED TO AMUSE EVERYBODY AND ENABLE ALL TO AMUSE EVERYBODY
ELSE; THUS BRINGING ABOUT AS NEAR AN APPROXIMATION TO
THE MILLENNIUM AS CAN BE CONVENIENTLY
ATTAINED IN THE COMPASS OF
ONE SMALL VOLUME.
By FRANK BELLEW.
WITH NEARLY 150 ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR.
NEW YORK:
Carleton, Publisher, 413 Broadway.
London: S. Low, Son & Co.
MDCCCLXVI.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by
GEO. W. CARLETON,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
To J. C. W.
| To you, my little kinsman, I dedicate these pages, Tho' not so wise, perhaps, as some you've read by graver sages; They're not without a purpose, and I trust a kind and true one, Older than eighteen hundred years, still good as any new one. If they could cheer some winter nights, and make some days seem brighter, I'd feel I'd paid a groat or so, Of that great debt of love I owe, To one at rest who, long ago, dealt kindly by the writer. |
| F. B. |
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I.—Something censorious.—Declaration of Independence.—Card puzzle.—The magic coin.—A hoax.—The telescopic visitor.—Boy's head knocked off. | 7 |
| CHAPTER II.—Colored mesmerism. | 17 |
| CHAPTER III.—Lemon pig and root dragon.—Portrait of the gorilla.—Creature comforts.—High shoulders.—Theatre and theatrical performances.—Nose turned up and teeth knocked out without pain.—The Long-nosed Night-howler, or Vulgaris Pueris cum Papyrus Capitus.—Imitation banjo on piano.—Some conjuring tricks.—The reduced gentleman, or dwarf perforce. | 20 |
| CHAPTER IV.—The voice of the Night-howler.—The play of Punch and Judy, with full directions for producing the same.—Charade on rattan. | 38 |
| CHAPTER V.—Parlor arts and ornaments, comprising apple-seed mice, turnip roses, beet dahlias, and carrot marigolds.—Counting a billion.—The algebraic paradox.—Answer to charade on rattan.—Riddles, etc. | 56 |
| CHAPTER VI.—A patent play. | 72 |
| CHAPTER VII.—Pragmatic and didactic discourse.—Aunty Delluvian, her party.—The duck and double-barrelled speech.—The dwarf.—Trick with four grains of rice.—Riddles, etc. | 81 |
| CHAPTER VIII.—The dancing Highlander and Matadore. | 99 |
| CHAPTER IX.—Answer to trick with four grains of rice.—How to make an old apple-woman out of your fist. |