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| Preface, | [v] |
| CROQUET. |
| Materials used in the Game—Preparation of the Ground—Choiceof Sides—General Principles of the Game—Arrangementof the Bridges—Diagrams—Rules of the Game—Strikingthe Ball—Running a Bridge—Striking Out—The Rover—Roquet—Croquetand Roquet-Croquet—The Flinch—Suggestionsto Beginners—Hints to Players—Carpet Croquet—TheBoard Game—Vocabulary of Terms, | [13] |
| BASE BALL. |
| Origin of the Game—Rules adopted by “the National Associationof Base Ball Players”—Selection and Measuring ofGround—Diagram—Pitcher’s Point and Home Base—Useof the Bat—Description of the Game—The Catcher—ThePitcher—The Short Stop—First Base—Second Base—ThirdBase—Left Field—Center Field—Right Field—The Umpire—TheScorer, | [42] |
| ARCHERY. |
| Position of the Targets—Attitude in Shooting—Directions—Bows—Targets, | [64] |
| GARDENING AND FLOWERS. |
| Benefit of Children’s Gardens—The Woods—How to PlantSeeds—Ferneries—Ivies—Pressed Flowers—How to Plantand Grow Strawberries—Grapes—Designs for Flowers—ToProduce various Flowers from one stem—To Preserve Rosestill Winter, | [67] |
| ILLUMINATION. |
| Materials—Lists of Selected Colors—Brushes—Coloring—Tableof Colors and Mixed Tints—Design, | [85] |
| HOUSE AND HOME ARTS. |
| Decalcomanie, | [98] |
| Engraved Boxes, | [101] |
| Coral Flowers and Baskets, | [102] |
| Imitation of Inlaid Ivory, | [103] |
| Alum Baskets, | [103] |
| Painting on Glass, | [104] |
| Painting on Velvet, | [106] |
| Casting in Plaster, Sulphur, &c., | [109] |
| Leather Work, | [111] |
| Cigar Boxes made Useful, | [116] |
| Potichimanie, | [118] |
| Ornaments in Rice Shell Work, | [120] |
| Allspice Baskets, | [124] |
| Rice or Shell Baskets, | [125] |
| Wafer Baskets, | [125] |
| Impressions of Butterflies, | [126] |
| How to take Impressions of Leaves, | [126] |
| Paper Landscapes, | [127] |
| NATURAL MAGIC. |
| The Æolian Harp, | [128] |
| The Magic of Acoustics, | [129] |
| How Sound travels through a Solid, | [129] |
| Singular Example of Superstition, | [130] |
| Theory of the Voice, | [131] |
| The visibly growing Acorn, | [132] |
| DANCING. |
| Pop goes the Weasel, | [134] |
| Lancers, | [134] |
| Le Prince Imperial Quadrille, | [137] |
| Common Cotillion, | [139] |
| Basket Dance, | [140] |
| White Cockade, | [141] |
| The Waltz and Polka Quadrille, | [141] |
| Sir Roger De Coverly or Virginia Reel, | [141] |
| Nine-Pin Dance, | [142] |
| Caledonian Quadrilles, | [142] |
| DRAMATIC AMUSEMENTS. |
| General Directions for Private Theatricals, | [144] |
| Dramatic Reading Clubs, | [147] |
| Charades and how to Act them—Examples, | [149] |
| Tableaux Vivants, | [154] |
| THE SIBYL. |
| Sibylline Leaves—The Fiat of Fate—Flower Fate—Fate Box, | [156] |
| THE PUZZLER. |
| Conundrums, | [160] |
| Enigmas, Charades and Riddles, | [162] |
| An Enigmatical Dinner, | [168] |
| Paradoxes and Puzzles, | [170] |
| Arithmetical Problems, | [173] |
| Answers to Conundrums, | [175] |
| Answers to Enigmas and Charades, | [176] |
| Answers to Paradoxes and Puzzles, | [178] |
| Answers to Arithmetical Problems, | [180] |
| GAMES FOR OLD AND YOUNG. |
| Blind Man’s Buff, | [182] |
| Shadow Buff, | [183] |
| Blind Man’s Wand, | [183] |
| Chinese Shadows, | [184] |
| The Comical Concert, | [184] |
| The Menagerie, | [186] |
| Quaker Meeting, | [186] |
| Resemblances, | [187] |
| Put in a Word, | [188] |
| Proverbs, | [188] |
| Game of Characters, | [189] |
| Lawyer, | [190] |
| Consequences, | [190] |
| Fox and Geese, | [191] |
| Stage-Coach, | [192] |
| Hunt the Fox, | [193] |
| Sneezing, | [193] |
| The Ready Writer, | [193] |
| Rhyming Words in Pantomime, | [194] |
| Exhibition of the Modern Giant, | [196] |
| The Shadow at Command, | [197] |
| The Wizard of the East, | [198] |
| How to Bring a Person down upon a Feather, | [199] |
| The Apparent Impossibility, | [200] |
| The Turned Head, | [200] |
| Statuary, | [201] |
| “He can do little who can’t do this,” | [201] |
| “Brother, I’m Bobbed,” | [202] |
| “How do You Like it? When do You Like it? And Wherewill You Put it?” | [202] |
| The Bird Catcher, | [203] |
| Questions and Answers, | [206] |
| The Magic Wand, | [206] |
| The Rhyming Game, | [207] |
| The Game of Twenty Questions, | [208] |
| Game of Photograph, | [210] |
| York and Lancaster, or the War of the Roses, | [212] |
| Post-Office, | [214] |
| Hand-writing on the Wall, | [214] |
| Graces, | [215] |
| Family Newspaper, | [216] |
| GAMES OF MEMORY. |
| Grand Panjandrum, | [218] |
| “Le Jardin de ma tante,” | [219] |
| A Good Fat Hand | [219] |
| PARLOR GAMES. |
| Squails, | [222] |
| Parlor, or Carpet Bowls, | [226] |
| The Union Game, or Red, White and Blue, | [227] |
| Zoetrope, or Wheel of Life, | [229] |
| Grecian Games, | [230] |
| Jack-Straws, | [231] |
| GAMES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN. |
| Dance, Thumbkin, Dance! | [233] |
| Uncle John, | [234] |
| Mother Goose, | [234] |
| Clap out and Clap in, | [235] |
| Fingers and Thumbs, | [236] |
| “You are nothing but a Goose,” | [237] |
| Buzz, | [238] |
| The Puzzle Wall, | [239] |
| Dolls, | [240] |
| Boys, | [241] |
| Play-Ground Rhymes, | [243] |
| Forfeits, | [244] |
