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Part I. Pagb
Angling 330
Apparition, The 339
Arehboard, The 46
Archery 99
Ascending the Ladder 113
Balanced Stick, The 347
Bandy 43
Base-Ball , 15
Bicycle, The 317
Blackthorn 178
Blind-Man's-Buff 98
Bowing Beau, The , 347
Breast to Mouth 131
Bridge of Kaives, The 343
Buck 97
Camera Obscura 336
Cat 90
Catch Penny 133
Chairing the Iieg 114
Checkers 301
Cherry Cheat, The 384
Chess 149
Coasting 88
Conjurer's Joke, The 343
Counter Changed, The 845
Cricket 33
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Croquet 167
Cross Tag 55
CupandBaU 30
Deaf and Dumb Alphabet 164
Deep Leap 108
Deep Leap with the Pole Ill
Dot and Carry Two 113
Doubled Coin, The 248
Draughts 201
Drawing the Oven 95
Driving 187
Dropping the Kerchief 96
Duck on a Rock 94
Eatable Candle-Ends 243
Fascinated Bird, The 245
Fencing 124
Finger Peat 114
Fishing 220
Fives 27
Flying Book, The 112
Flying Steps 115
Follow my Leader 53
Foot-BaU 11
Ghost, The 239
Great Wooden Ball, The 117
Gymnastics 107
Hare and Hounds 60
Hat-BaU 27
Hide and Seek 94
High Leap • Ill
High Leap with Pole 110
Hockey 43
Holes 48
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Hoop, The 56
Hop, Step, and Jump 95
Hopscotch 91
Horizontal Bar 109
Hunt the Stag 50
Hunt the Slipper 95
Increase Pound 48
Ingenious Anamorphoses 340
Jumping 106
Jumping Kope, The 96
Kite, The. 58
Knights 147
Knock Out 46
Knuckle Down 113
La Crosse 179
Lame Lamplighter, The 96
Leap before you Look 120
Leap-Frog 51
Lilting at Arm's Length 114
Long Leap 109
Long Reach 115
Magic Lantern, The 237
Marbles 45
Mo\dng Pyramid, The 246
Mysterious Bottle, The : 246
Nine Holes 27
Optical Amusements 235
Pahn Spring, The 119
Parallel Bars 106
Peashooter, The 58
Peg Top 31
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PerUous Goblet, The 244
Philosophy Cheated 351
Pitching at the Cork 183
Planli, The 113
Poker Puzzle, The 123
Pop-Gun, The 56
Prancing Dragoon, The 349
Prisoner's Base 53
Prostrate and Perpendicidar 109
Pulley, The 130
Puss in the Corner 54
Pyramid 47
Quoits 181
Eackets , 40
Riding 183
Eing-Taw 46
Eosamond's Bower 147
Eounders 29
Eowing 191
. Running 108
Saddle my Nag 53
Sailing 305
See-Saw - 93
Sentinel Egg 243
Shinny 43
Shoot the Die 47
Simple Deception 251
Singular Illusion 242
Skating 81
Snow Giant, The 88
Stepping through your Fingers 113
Stilts ; 122
Stooping Stretch 117
Storm and Calm 247
CONTEN"TS. - 9
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Sucker, The 56
Swimming 61
Swinging 89
Tag 55
Tantalus Trick 118
Ten Pins 177
Thread the Needle 93
Thumb-String 245
Tip-Cat , 90
To Climb the Pole 113
To Climb the Eope 110
To Light a Candle by Smoke 244
Toper's Tripod, The 248
Tops : 31
To Suspend a Ring by Burnt Thread 245
To Take a Chair from under You 121
Touch 55
Trial of the Thumb 119
Triumph, The Ill
Tumble-Down Dick 116
Tug of War 89
Turn Over 118
Two to One 116
Vaulting 110
Velocipede, The 217
Walking 106
Watch-Spring Gun, The 60
Whip Top 33
Whoop ■ 93
Wine upon Water 344
Wizard's Chariot, The 349
Wolf, the Goat and the Cabbage 315
"W^onderful EeUlumination 347
Yachting 305
10 CONTEIJTTS.
Chinese Origin 145
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