Excerpt from Work and Play Annual of Home Amusements and Social Sports: Containing Directions for Various in-Door and Out-Door Games, Parlor Tricks, Acting Charades, &C The progress of the majority of Americans in the right direction has been very marked within the past ten years, during which time a very superior class of social games and amusements has been put into the market. It was in the interest of this cause that the Magazine, work and play, was launched on the sea of competition two years ago, and the success with which it has been crowned is a new guarantee that par ents are ready to welcome any aid in this good movement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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