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.

Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus

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

Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus

None of the following tricks are wholly managed by the apparatus, as such performances are unworthy of notice. Therefore, every trick…

Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus: Take

To perform the trick, place six real pence on the little shelf, and have the sham pence on the table. Take them up and rattle them, and put…

Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus: Into

You have a cardboard measure, which is of precisely the same capacity as the cavity in the bell, and just wide enough to hold a farthing…

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