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[Illustration:
  POPULAR
  PASTIMES
  For

  Field & Fireside.]




                           Popular Pastimes

                                  FOR

                          Field and Fireside,

                                  OR

                     Amusements for Young and Old.

                         CAREFULLY COMPILED BY

                             AUNT CARRIE.

                          SPRINGFIELD, MASS.:

                   PUBLISHED BY MILTON BRADLEY & CO.
                                 1867.




      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by

                       MILTON BRADLEY & COMPANY,

      In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District
                           of Massachusetts.


  SAMUEL BOWLES AND COMPANY.
  Printers, Binders and Electrotypers.




                              AUNT CARRIE

                               DEDICATES

                         TO HER YOUNG FRIENDS

                              THIS BOOK,

                     IN THE HOPE THAT IT WILL ADD
                               TO THEIR

                            HOME PLEASURES.




Preface.


I WOULD like to make a few suggestions on “home influence,” before I
commence a list of amusements. They may be superfluous; if so, I trust
you will pardon me.

All parents, I am sure, must feel a deep interest in this subject, and
I think will agree with me that judicious praise is quite as necessary
in the training of a child as wholesome correction. But if we wish
our children to have a genuine love for us, and our homes, we must
sympathize with them, and never forget we were