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[Illustration: IN-DOOR AMUSEMENTS.

  BLIND MAN'S BUFF.                  NINE PINS.
                  FIRESIDE FUN.
    WHIST.                       PARLOUR MAGIC.]




  CASSELL'S
  BOOK OF
  IN-DOOR AMUSEMENTS,
  CARD GAMES,
  AND
  FIRESIDE FUN.


  With Numerous Illustrations.


  _THIRD EDITION._


  CASSELL, PETTER, GALPIN & CO.:
  _LONDON, PARIS & NEW YORK_.

  [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]




PREFACE.


This Work is a companion volume to CASSELL'S BOOK OF SPORTS AND
PASTIMES. As the latter--with the exception of the special sections
on "Recreative Science," "The Workshop," and "Home Pets"--is
largely occupied with games and sports which are usually carried on
out-of-doors, it will be seen that the present book, which is almost
exclusively devoted to indoor games of various kinds, forms a very
fitting supplement to the other.

It has been the constant aim of the different writers to convey their
information in plain, accurate, direct fashion, so that readers may
come to understand, on the first occasion of consulting it, that
CASSELL'S BOOK OF INDOOR AMUSEMENTS, CARD GAMES, AND FIRESIDE FUN is
a Work that deserves their confidence, and may accordingly acquire
the habit of referring to it, as a matter of