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This is a most amusing game if well carried out. The two performers
must be hidden behind two curtains in front of which a table has been
placed.
One of the performers slips his hands into a child's socks and little
shoes. He must then disguise his face, by putting on a false mustache,
painting his eyebrows, sticking pieces of black court plaster over one
or two of his teeth, which will make it appear as though he has lost
several teeth. This, with a turban on his head, will prove a very fair
disguise. The second performer must now stand behind the first and
pass his arms round him, so that the second performer's hands may
appear like the hands of the dwarf, while the first performer's hands
make his feet. The figure must, of course, be carefully dressed, and
the body of the second performer hidden behind the curtains.
The front player now puts his slippered hands upon the table and
begins to keep time, while the other performer follows suit with his
hands.
The dwarf can be used either to tell fortunes, make jokes, or ask
riddles, and if the performers act their parts well, the guests will
laugh very heartily.
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