 | Henry Ling Roth, Hugh Brooke Low - 1896
...strength, possess a variety of indoor amusements. One wet day, in a Dyak house, when a number of boys and young men were about me, I thought to amuse them with...and made several new figures which quite puzzled me. Then they showed me a number of other tricks with pieces of string, which seemed a favourite amusement... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literary Collections - 1897
...about me, I thought to amuse them with something new, and showed them how to make " cat's-cradle " with a piece of string. Greatly to my surprise, they...knew all about it, and more than I did; for after Charles and I had gone through all the changes we could make, one of the boys took it off my hand,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literary Collections - 1897
...about me, I thought to amuse them with something new, and showed them how to make " cat's-cradle " with a piece of string. Greatly to my surprise, they knew all about it, and more than_ I did; for after Charles and I had gone through all the changes we could make, one of the boys... | |
 | Alfred Cort Haddon - Philosophy - 1898 - 410 pages
...describes1 his finding this game in Borneo: " One wet day in a Dyak house, when a number of boys and young men were about me, I thought to amuse them with...string, which seemed a favourite Amusement with them." Lieutenant de Crespigny ' writes of the Dusuns of Borneo : " Near me were two children playing at '... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Richard Stockton, Nathan Haskell Dole, Julian Hawthorne, Caroline Ticknor - 1901
...about me, I thought to amuse them with something new, and showed them how to make " cat's-cradle " with a piece of string. Greatly to my surprise, they...knew all about it, and more than I did ; for after Charles and I had gone through all the changes we could make, one of the boys took it off my hand,... | |
 | Caroline Furness Jayne - 1906 - 407 pages
...were about me, I thought to amuse them with something new, and showed them how to make 'cat's-cradle' with a piece of string. Greatly to my surprise, they...other tricks with pieces of string, which seemed a favorite amusement with them." De Crespigny (p. 344) writes of the Dusuns of Borneo: "Near me were... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917
...about me, I thought to amuse them with something new, and showed them how to make ™ cat's-cradle " with a piece of string. Greatly to my surprise, they...knew all about it, and more than I did; for after Charles and I had gone through all the changes we could make, one of the boys took it off my hand,... | |
 | Caroline Furness Jayne - Games - 1906 - 407 pages
...about me, I thought to amuse them with something new, and showed them how to make ' cat's-cradle ' with a piece of string. Greatly to my surprise, they...other tricks with pieces of string, which seemed a favorite amusement with them." De Crespigny (p. 344) writes of the Dusuns of Borneo: "Near me were... | |
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One wet day in a Dyak house, when a number of boys and young men were about me, I thought to amuse them with something new, and showed them how to make " cat's-cradle 