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• Proper disposition of jewels and decorations, and adornment in dress
• Magic or sorcery
• Quickness of hand or manual skill
• Culinary art, i.e. cooking and cookery
• Making lemonades, sherbets, acidulated drinks, and spirituous extracts with proper flavour
and colour
• Tailor's work and sewing
• Making parrots, flowers, tufts, tassels, bunches, bosses, knobs, etc., out of yarn or thread
• Solution of riddles, enigmas, covert speeches, verbal puzzles and enigmatical questions
• A game, which consisted in repeating verses, and as one person finished, another person had
to commence at once, repeating another verse, beginning with the same letter with which the
last speaker's verse ended, whoever failed to repeat was considered to have lost, and to be
subject to pay a forfeit or stake of some kind
• The art of mimicry or imitation
• Reading, including chanting and intoning
• Study of sentences difficult to pronounce. It is played as a game chiefly by women, and
children and consists of a difficult sentence being given, and when repeated quickly, the
words are often transposed or badly pronounced
• Practice with sword, single stick, quarter staff and bow and arrow
• Drawing inferences, reasoning or inferring
• Carpentry, or the work of a carpenter
• Architecture, or the art of building
• Knowledge about gold and silver coins, and jewels and gems
• Chemistry and mineralogy
• Colouring jewels, gems and beads
• Knowledge of mines and quarries
• Gardening; knowledge of treating the diseases of trees and plants, of nourishing them, and
determining their ages
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