. Games of skill, and conjuring: including draughts, dominoes, chess, morrice . oid getting into the lower square of the board if possible, as hewill find it dijB&cult to extricate himself from a position which can beso easily blockaded. Pox and geese may be played on an ordinary draughtboard, butthe flock of geese must be reduced in number to four. The fox hasall the privileges of a king in draughts ; that is to say, he may moveeither forwards or backwards. His position at the opening of thegame is on one of the four white squares next to his player. Thefour geese can only move forward like o
. Games of skill, and conjuring: including draughts, dominoes, chess, morrice . oid getting into the lower square of the board if possible, as hewill find it dijB&cult to extricate himself from a position which can beso easily blockaded. Pox and geese may be played on an ordinary draughtboard, butthe flock of geese must be reduced in number to four. The fox hasall the privileges of a king in draughts ; that is to say, he may moveeither forwards or backwards. His position at the opening of thegame is on one of the four white squares next to his player. Thefour geese can only move forward like ordinary draughtsmen, andthey are placed on the four white squares on their players side ofthe board. The game is similar to that played on the cross-shapedboard. The player of the geese endeavours to block the fox up ina corner ; and the player of the fox tries to push his piece throughthe line of geese, and so place him beyond the reach of further per-secutions. The fox can jump over the head of any goose that is notsupported by another, o-r by the edge of the board. 29. As the multifarious performances of the Nimble jugglers, that deceive the eye, have in all ages been especial favourites of the people, we cannot dobetter than prelude our conjuring tricks with a brief notice of theearly history of the deceptive art. The origin of legerdemain is lost in its great antiquity, for it wouldbe an utterly hopeless task to endeavour to find out at what preciseperiod men began to deceive their fellow men by sleights of hand,and other specious trickery. Amongst the eaiiy Egyptians, sometricks were practised similar to what are displayed in the presentday, such as casting up knives and balls alternately, and the cheat-ing trick known by the name of the ** thimble rig, Sleight of handtricks, fire eating, balancing poles upon the forehead, learned pigs,taking up red hot iron, with tumbling, and many other exploits ofthe same kind, are of classical antiquity ; and it would seem, fromthe ac
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