Every Boy's Book

Hop-scotch to hare-and-hounds, conjuring to chemistry, rabbits to rowing — the complete Victorian repertoire of things for a boy to do, set down with rules and diagrams.

Sleight of Hand

3 pages in this part of Every Boy's Book.

Sleight of Hand

It is intended in the following pages to lay more stress upon those tricks which require no apparatus than upon those for which special…

Sleight of Hand: Take

Take a piece of string, and tie the two ends together with a weaver's knot, as that holds the best, and arrange it over the fingers as…

Sleight of Hand: Loose

Take the same piece of string as in the last trick, hold your left hand with the palm uppermost, and hang the string over the palm. Spread…

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