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• Games we play
  by: Paddington, Bruce
  Published: (1991)
• Sports and pastime : or, Hocus-Pocus improv'd. Shewing, 1. To turn water into wine. 2. To convey a card out of a nut-shell. 3. To catch birds. 4. To take Eels. 5. To make sport with an Egg 6. To fetch a Shilling out of a Handkerchief. 7. To wring Beer out of the Handle of a Knife. 8. Tricks with Tobacco-Pipes. 9. To win at Racing. 10. To know Cross or Pile by the Sound of Money. 11. To wrap one's Knuckles. 12. To make you laugh till the Tears stand in your Eyes. 13. To fox Fish. 14. A Philosoph-Experiment: 15. To cure the Tooth-Ach. 16. To bring 2 Pieces together 17. To win a Wager by feeling, 18. To take Conies. 19. To catch Wild-Ducks. 20. Sport with a Maid. 21. To make Liquor boil out of a Pot. 22. To prevent frothing Pots. 23. To Hatch-Chickens without a Hen. 24. Make it freeze by the Fire. 25. To take a String off a Pipe 26. To make good Sport. 27. To strike Chalks through a Table. 28. To convey Money away. 29. To play the wag with a Servant-Maid. 30. To make Sport with Bells. 31. Meat to seem Magotty. 32. To write invisible. 33. To cut the Blowing-Book. 34. To Engrave 35. The Egg-Box. 36. The Melting-Box. 37. The Globe-Box. 38. To cut Cloth, and make it whole again. 39. To make a Knife leap out of a Pot. 40. To take Buttons off a string 41. To cut Glass. 42. The Mosaick Rod. 43. To draw an Egg through a Ring. 44. To put Pease in your Eye. 45. Harts-Horn to make grow. 46. To write in a Dark-Night. 47. To walk on a hot Iron. 48. To eat Fire. 49. A Room to seem on fire. 50. To have a Sallad grow while the Meat roasts. 51. An Egg to fly in the air. 52. A sheet of paper call'd trouble-wit. With divers other legerdemain curiosities
  Published: (1705)
• An expostulatory address to all who frequent places of diversion and gaming
  by: Darby, Abiah
  Published: (1765)
• The danger of masqueradess and raree-shows, or the complaints of the stage, against masquerades, opera's, assemblies : Balls, Puppet-Shows, Bear-Gardens, Cock-Fights, Wrestling, Posture-Masters, Cudgel-Playing, Foot-Ball, Rope-Dancing, Merry-Makings, and several other irrational Entertainments, as being the Ground and Occasion of the late Decay of Wit in the Island of Great-Britain. By C.R. of C.C.C. Oxford. Inscribed to Mrs. Oldfield
  by: C. R
  Published: (1718)
• By special command. For the benefit of Ireland, for near two years in Rehearsal, and will be performed at the Great Booth in College Green, on Tuesday the 7th of October, 1753, a tragi comical sarcical entertainment, not acted these three years, called the contrast between court and country : With the humours of Roger de Coverly, all the parts will be disposed of to the best advantage, with entire new dresses, all of ------Irish manufacture, ------ and other decorations suitable to the play. With a prologue and epilogue suitable to the occasion. To which will be added, a pantomine entertaiment, called the groans of the disappointed. The part caiphas to be performed by black and all black, a devise, formerly minister at Bantam, but disgraced and lately imported here. With several pieces of machinery, scenery, sinkings, flyings, bowings, cringings, entirely new in this kingdom. The dead man brought to life or D----t in a cradle. The principal characters in the play, will be printed in the bills the day of performance. The tickets given out for places, pensions and promises, by caiphas and briarius's for the last performance, but refused for being counterseits, will not be taken in the above night
  Published: (1753)