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Dick's One Hundred Amusements
by William B. Dick

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For evening parties, picnics, and social gatherings.

Includes: attractive parlor games, clearly illustrated by means of witty examples, showing how each may be most successfully played. Surprising tricks, easy of performance. Musical and other innocent sells. Comical illusions fully described, very startling in their effects, and presenting little or no difficulty in their preparation. A variety of ingenious puzzles. It also includes a new version of Mrs. Jarley's Wax Works.

Table of Contents

  • PREFACE
  • SOCIAL AMUSEMENTS FOR EVENING PARTIES
  • FIRST EVENING
    • The Signal Master
    • The Elephant
    • Pity the Poor Blind
    • The Grotesque Quartette
    • Selling Statues
    • The Divided Tapes
  • SECOND EVENING
    • My House, Your House
    • The Odd Card
    • This, or That
    • The Museum
    • Nondescript, or Flexible Giant
    • To Magnetize a Cane
  • THIRD EVENING
    • Throwing Light
    • The Centaur
    • The Magic Handkerchief
    • A Magical Knot
    • One Old Orang-Outang
    • The House that Jack built
    • The Birds
    • Musical Merry-go-round
    • The Invisible Transfer
  • FOURTH EVENING
    • Musical Neighbors
    • The Embarrassed Landlord
    • To Guess the Two Ends of a Line of Dominoes
    • The Irishman’s Wake
    • Planting
    • The Changed Dice-spots
  • FIFTH EVENING
    • The Blind Beggar
    • Garibaldi
    • The Giraffe
    • The Needle and Thread Trick
    • Mary’s Lamb
    • Right is Wrong
  • SIXTH EVENING
    • Musical Surprise
    • The Compressed Man
    • The Elongated Man
    • Traveling Alphabetically
    • The Interrupted Housebreakers
    • Telling the Dice Unseen
  • SEVENTH EVENING
    • Hat Measurement
    • Insects and Flowers
    • The Wonderful Giant
    • The Emperor of Austria
    • John Brown
    • Hocus-Pocus
    • The Mysterious Release
    • Century Court
  • EIGHTH EVENING Mrs. Parley’s Wax-Works
    • Justice is Blind
    • The Table Orator
    • What’s O’clock?
  • NINTH EVENING
    • Railway Accidents
    • The Severed Head
    • Who Was He?
    • “Or any other Jackass”
    • The Hat and Quarter Trick
    • The Royal Marriages
  • TENTH EVENING
    • Nonsense
    • The Rising Man
    • The Long-Necked Gentleman
    • Proverbs in Chorus
    • The Muffin Man
    • The Rabbit
    • Magic Music
    • The Elements
    • The Rose-colored Goat
    • Cain and Abel
    • The High Jump

1st edition 1879, PDF 151 pages.
word count: 55837 which is equivalent to 223 standard pages of text


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