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Home Pastimes; or Agreeable Exercises for the Mind, consisting of Enigmas, Charades Conundrums, etc
Wraps, 16mo, 24pp. 20 in-text illustrations. Good with slight loss at the upper corner, faint tidemark around the edges of the text, light soil and handling wear. With a quote from educator Mrs. Barbauld on the title page that begins, "Finding out riddles is the same kind of exercise for the mind, that running, leaping, &c., are to the body." Well illustrated riddles in verse and one-liners, including, "Why is the principal of a female seminary like the letter C? He forms lasses into classes," and, "Why is a careless boy like a bottle of quack medicine? When taken, he should be shaken."
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