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Title: Holiday Frolics; Or, Endless Amusement for the Christmas Fireside

Author: Anonymous

Release date: January 24, 2020 [eBook #61229]
Most recently updated: October 17, 2024

Language: English

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To make a bird appear as dead.

Marks fec.

A curious trick with a cup of tea.

HOLIDAY FROLICS;
OR,
ENDLESS AMUSEMENT
FOR THE CHRISTMAS FIRESIDE.
CONTAINING,
The most Astonishing Feats of Legerdemain,
AND
ASTOUNDING CONJURINGS;
Entertaining Experiments
IN VARIOUS BRANCHES OF SCIENCE;
TRICKS with CARDS & DICE.
ART OF MAKING
FIREWORKS;
TOGETHER WITH AN EXCELLENT COLLECTION OF
Puzzles, Conundrums, Riddles, Charades, &c. &c.
The whole admirably calculated to beguile the leisure hours of our Holiday Friends.
Embellished with a Copper-plate Engraving.

London:

W. Strange, 21, Paternoster Row; G. Purkess, 61,

Wardour Street; and J. Clements, 17,

Little Pulteney Street, Soho.

PRICE SIXPENCE.