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Victorian Children's Games

Pies'. A play-acting game, where a nurse in charge of a group of unruly children threatens to sell them to the baker to turn them into Pies'. The baker, hearing about this, finds ways of stealing the children while the nurse is distracted. The game evolves as the baker finds ingenious ways of distracting the nurse so as to steal all the children one by one to make Pies out of them

Picture No
14083172
Media ID
45451797
Size
4095px x 3469px (11.6MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library/Peter & Dawn Cope Collection
Source
The Girls Own Paper
Date
1892

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