Our 34th Old Maid deck was published around 1900 by Milton Bradley. Atypically, it includes pairs of objects as well as people. Not only is there a Farmer, Golf Girl, Politician, and Red Cross Nurse, but such objects as a Yacht, Typewriter, Automobile, and this oddly-named Graphophone. And here’s the Old Maid, who seems to […]

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Feeding Time is now available from Black Scat Books! This collection of Alphonse Allais’s short pieces, originally published in 1897, shows the great French humorist at his best, spinning out stories, fables, dialogues, and articles with elegance and imagination. You’ll find clandestine train stations and incandescent leeks, the rules for attending funerals with a bicycle, […]

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