Sports and pastime: or, Hocus-Pocus improv'd. Shewing, 1. To turn water into wine. 2. To convey a card out of a nut-shell. 3. To catch birds. 4. To take Eels. 5. To make sport with an Egg 6. To fetch a Shilling out of a Handkerchief. 7. To wring Beer out of the Handle of a Knife. 8. Tricks with Tobacco-Pipes. 9. To win at Racing. 10. To know Cross or Pile by the Sound of Money. 11. To wrap one's Knuckles. 12. To make you laugh till the Tears stand in your Eyes. 13. To fox Fish. 14. A Philosoph-Experiment: 15. To cure the Tooth-Ach. 16. To bring 2 Pieces together 17. To win a Wager by feeling, 18. To take Conies. 19. To catch Wild-Ducks. 20. Sport with a Maid. 21. To make Liquor boil out of a Pot. 22. To prevent frothing Pots. 23. To Hatch-Chickens without a Hen. 24. Make it freeze by the Fire. 25. To take a String off a Pipe 26. To make good Sport. 27. To strike Chalks through a Table. 28. To convey Money away. 29. To play the wag with a Servant-Maid. 30. To make Sport with Bells. 31. Meat

People / Organizations

• George Conyers ("printed for")

Imprint

London]: Printed for G. Conyers at the Ring in Little-Britain, and S. Deacon at the Angel in Guiltspur-Street, [1705?

Publication year

1705

ESTC No.

T179801

Grub Street ID

216508

Description

70p. : ill. ; 12°.

Note

With a half-title

Price from imprint: Price stitch'd 6 d.

Uncontrolled note

Frontis = ill. G. Conyers active 1686-1712 and S. Deacon working c.1700 (Plomer)