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HOME FUN

HOME FUN
BY
CECIL H. BULLIVANT

NEW YORK
DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY
214-220 East 23rd St.

COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY
DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY

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PREFATORY NOTE

Not to produce workers of wonders or exponents of marvelous mysteries;not to launch on an already over-crowded market a host ofprofessional or semi-professional entertainers—but rather to give tothose who can find real pleasure in amusing others, such knowledge asshall enable them to transform the lagging winter hours into periodsof sheer delight, has this book been written.

While in no sense does it claim to be an exhaustive guide to homeamusements, it represents a serious effort to bring within the scope ofone volume almost every form of popular home diversion.

The subjects have been dealt with from a simple but perfectly practicalpoint of view. In addition to the different accomplishments beingso explained as to be easily comprehended and acquired, the successfulpresentment of them is made possible at a minimum of expense. Thegreatest difficulty which formerly faced the amateur entertainer wasthe heavy cost of production, but even the most expensive form ofamusement explained in the following chapters comes well within themodest “pocket-money bounds” of the average boy.

It is hoped that in “Home Fun” will be found much that is entirelynew concerning subjects about which little or nothing has hitherto beenwritten. Whereas the paths so well trodden by authorities on entertainingare here more or less passed over, excursions are made intoequally fascinating by-ways, an acquaintance with the delights of whichcannot fail to win success and widespread approval for the promoterof entertainments at home.

That those who follow the many chapters on subjects so amusingand diverse may obtain from them as great pleasure as he who hascompiled them is the sincere wish of the author.

Cecil Henry Bullivant.

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