CONTENTS.
ROUND OR PARLOUR GAMES.
| PAGE | |
| Acting Proverbs | [9] |
| Acting Rhymes | [9] |
| Adjectives | [10] |
| Adventurers, The | [10] |
| Æsop's Mission | [11] |
| Alphabet Games | [11] |
| Artists' Menagerie, The | [12] |
| Baby Elephant, The | [12] |
| Bird-catcher, The | [13] |
| Blind man's Buff | [13] |
| Blind Postman | [13] |
| Blowing out the Candle | [13] |
| Bouts Rimés | [14] |
| "Brother, I'm Bobbed" | [14] |
| "Buff says 'Baff'" | [14] |
| Buff with the Wand | [15] |
| Capping Verses | [15] |
| Charades | [15] |
| Clairvoyant | [17] |
| Comic Concert, The | [18] |
| Consequences | [18] |
| Conveyances | [19] |
| Crambo | [19] |
| Cross Questions and Crooked Answers | [20] |
| "Cupid is Coming" | [20] |
| Cushion Dance, The | [20] |
| Definitions | [21] |
| Dumb Crambo | [21] |
| Dwarf | [21] |
| Elements, The | [22] |
| Farmyard, The | [22] |
| Feather, The | [22] |
| Finding the Ring | [22] |
| Flying | [23] |
| Forfeits | [23] |
| Giant | [28] |
| Giraffe, The | [28] |
| Grand Mufti, The | [28] |
| Hands | [28] |
| "He can do little who can't do this" | [29] |
| Hiss and Clap | [29] |
| "Hot Boiled Beans" | [29] |
| Hot Cockles | [29] |
| House Furnishers | [29] |
| "How do you like your Neighbour?" | [30] |
| "How, When, and Where?" | [30] |
| Hunt the Ring | [30] |
| Hunt the Slipper | [30] |
| Hunt the Whistle | [31] |
| "I Apprenticed my Son" | [31] |
| "I Love my Love" | [31] |
| "Jack's Alive" | [31] |
| Jolly Miller, The | [32] |
| Judge and Jury | [32] |
| Magic Answer, The | [32] |
| Magical Music | [33] |
| Magic Hats, The | [33] |
| Magic Wand, The | [33] |
| "The Minister's Cat" | [34] |
| Mixed-up Poetry | [34] |
| Musical Chair | [35] |
| "My Master has sent me unto you" | [35] |
| Nouns and Questions | [35] |
| Object Game, The | [35] |
| Old Soldier, The | [36] |
| Oranges and Lemons | [36] |
| Original Sketches | [37] |
| "Our Old Grannie doesn't like Tea" | [37] |
| Pairs | [37] |
| Person and Object | [37] |
| Pork-Butcher, The | [38] |
| Postman's Knock | [38] |
| Proverbs | [38] |
| Quaker's Meeting, The | [38] |
| Resting Wand, The | [39] |
| Retsch's Outlines | [39] |
| Reviewers, The | [40] |
| Rhymes | [40] |
| Rule of Contrary | [41] |
| Russian Gossip | [41] |
| Schoolmaster, The | [41] |
| Shadow Buff | [41] |
| Shouting Proverbs | [42] |
| "Simon says" | [42] |
| Spanish Merchant, The | [42] |
| Spanish Nobleman, The | [42] |
| Spelling Bee | [43] |
| Spoon Music | [43] |
| Stage Coach, The | [44] |
| Stool of Repentance | [44] |
| Tableaux Vivants | [45] |
| Telescope Giant, The | [46] |
| Think of a Number | [46] |
| This and That | [46] |
| Throwing Light | [47] |
| Toilet | [47] |
| Trades, The | [48] |
| Traveller's Alphabet, The | [48] |
| Twenty Questions | [49] |
| Two Hats, The | [49] |
| "What am I Doing?" | [49] |
| "What is my Thought like?" | [49] |
| Who was he? | [50] |
| Wild Beast Show, The | [50] |
| "Yes or No?" | [50] |
TOY GAMES AND TOY-MAKING.
| PAGE | |
| Æolian Harp | [52] |
| Animated Serpent | [52] |
| Annulette | [53] |
| Apple Mill | [53] |
| Apple Woman | [53] |
| Bandilor | [54] |
| Battledore and Shuttlecock | [54] |
| Bell and Hammer | [54] |
| Bird Whistles | [54] |
| Birds, Beasts, and Fishes | [54] |
| Bombardment | [54] |
| Bottle Imps | [54] |
| Brother Jonathan | [55] |
| Camera (Miniature) | [55] |
| Cannonade | [55] |
| Carpet Croquet | [56] |
| Castle Bagatelle | [56] |
| Common Whistle | [56] |
| Crack Loo | [56] |
| Cup and Ball | [56] |
| Cupolette | [56] |
| Cut-water | [57] |
| Dancing Highlander | [57] |
| Dancing Pea | [57] |
| Dart and Target | [58] |
| Dartelle | [58] |
| Decimal Game | [58] |
| Demon Bottle | [58] |
| Drawing-room Archery | [59] |
| Dutch Racquets | [59] |
| Enfield Skittles | [59] |
| Flying Cones | [59] |
| French and English | [60] |
| Gas Balloons | [60] |
| German Balls | [60] |
| German Billiards | [61] |
| Hat Measurement | [61] |
| Homeward Bound | [61] |
| Hydraulic Dancer | [61] |
| Immovable Card | [61] |
| Indian Skittle Pool | [61] |
| Jack-in-the-Box | [62] |
| Japanese Fan | [62] |
| Jerk Straws | [62] |
| Le Diable | [62] |
| Magic Fan | [62] |
| Magic Figure | [64] |
| Magic Flute | [64] |
| Magician of Morocco | [64] |
| Magnetic Swan | [65] |
| Magnetic Wand | [65] |
| Magnifying Pinhole | [66] |
| Mechanical Bucephalus | [66] |
| Microscope (Toy) | [66] |
| Mocking Call | [67] |
| Moorish Fort | [67] |
| Navette | [67] |
| Nine pins | [68] |
| Noughts and Crosses | [68] |
| Obedient Soldier | [68] |
| Palada | [68] |
| Paper Bellows | [69] |
| Paper Boat | [69] |
| Paper Boxes | [70] |
| Paper Chinese Junk | [70] |
| Paper Dart | [72] |
| Paper Hat (Pyramidal) | [72] |
| Paper Parachute | [72] |
| Paper Purses | [73] |
| Parlour Bowls | [74] |
| Parlour Croquet | [74] |
| Parlour Quoits | [74] |
| Patchesi; or, Homeward Bound | [75] |
| Pegasus in Flight | [75] |
| Pith Dancer | [76] |
| Prancing Horse | [76] |
| Prophet | [76] |
| Puff and Dart | [77] |
| Push Pin | [78] |
| Puzzle-wit | [78] |
| Quintain | [78] |
| Quiz | [78] |
| Race Game | [78] |
| Racquets (Drawing-Room) | [79] |
| Revolving Ring | [79] |
| Ringolette | [80] |
| Ring the Bull | [80] |
| Royal Star | [80] |
| Schimmel | [81] |
| Shovel Board | [82] |
| Skittle Cannonade | [83] |
| Slate Games | [84] |
| Spillikins or Spelicans | [85] |
| Squails | [86] |
| Squeaker | [86] |
| Steady Tar | [87] |
| Summer Ice | [87] |
| Sybil | [87] |
| Table Croquet | [87] |
| Targetta | [87] |
| Teetotum | [88] |
| Tit-tat-to | [88] |
| Tournament | [88] |
| Trails | [88] |
| Trouble Wit | [88] |
| Wonderful Trumpet | [88] |
MECHANICAL PUZZLES.
| PAGE | |
| Balanced Pail, The | [90] |
| Balanced Stick, The | [90] |
| Bridge of Knives, The | [91] |
| Square and Circle Puzzle, The | [91] |
| Carpenter's Puzzle, The | [91] |
| Divided Farm, The | [92] |
| Vertical Line Puzzle, The | [92] |
| String and Balls Puzzle, The | [92] |
| Puzzling Rings, The | [93] |
| Balls and Rings Puzzle, The | [93] |
| Staff Puzzle, The | [94] |
| Victoria Puzzle, The | [94] |
| Artillery Puzzle, The | [94] |
| Six Rows Puzzle, The | [94] |
| Six-Square Puzzle, The | [94] |
| Magic Octagon, The | [94] |
| Accommodating Square, The | [94] |
| Magic Cross, The | [95] |
| To Take a Man's Waistcoat off without Removing his Coat | [95] |
| To Break a Stone with a Blow of the Fist | [96] |
| The Key, the Heart, and the Dart | [96] |
| Prisoners' Release Puzzle, The | [96] |
| Hampton Court Maze | [96] |
ARITHMETICAL PUZZLES.