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PARLOR GAMES

They were cheap and you usually got what you paid for, but
one game was a big hit.

It was Yo-Yos, those two little cylinders at the end of a string.
If you twirled it right it would spin out of your hand and keep
spinning at the end of the string. It was just the right size so
you could take it anywhere. Carry it in your hand or keep it in
your pocket. They were cheap and fancy enough so you could
have more than one. I might have had three or four with extra
string.
You could do lots of tricks with it. One called ‘walking the
dog’. I could spin it out and while at the end ‘walk’ it along
the ground. Another trick spun it out and twirled it around
and around the ‘world’. I could also make a cradle with the
string and rock the Yo-Yo back and forth, while it kept
swinging and spinning. These were all pretty easy, but there
were lots of other tricks, much harder. Some kids were so
good at it that they entered contests

Brother Joe won a couple of contests, he was pretty good at it
and had a number of sparkling Yo-Yos with rhine stones
embedded in them.

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