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trumental music. 5. Writing and drawing. 6. Tattooing. 7. Arraying and adorning an idol with rice and flowers. 8. Spreading and arraying beds or couches of flowers, or flowers upon the ground. 9. Colouring the teeth, garments, hair, nails, and bodies, _i.e._, staining, dyeing, colouring and painting the same. 10. Fixing stained glass into a floor. 11. The art of making beds, and spreading out carpets and cushions for reclining. 12. Playing on musical glasses filled with water. 13. Storing and accumulating water in aqueducts, cisterns and reservoirs. 14. Picture making, trimming and decorating. 15. Stringing of rosaries, necklaces, garlands and wreaths. 16. Binding of turbans and chaplets, and making crests and top-knots of flowers. 17. Scenic representations. Stage playing. 18. Art of making ear ornaments. 19. Art of preparing perfumes and odours. 20. Proper disposition of jewels and decorations, and adornment in dress. 21. Magic or sorcery. 22. Quickness of hand or manual skill. 23. Culinary art, _i.e._, cooking and cookery. 24. Making lemonades, sherbets, acidulated drinks, and spirituous extracts with proper flavour and colour. 25. Tailor's work and sewing. 26. Making parrots, flowers, tufts, tassels, bunches, bosses, knobs, &c., out of yarn or thread. 27. Solution of riddles, enigmas, covert speeches, verbal puzzles and enigmatical questions. 28. 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. 29. The art of mimicry or imitation. 30. Reading, including chanting and intoning. 31. 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. 32. Practice with sword, single stick, quarter staff, and bow and arrow. 33. Drawing inferences, reasoning or inferring. 34. Carpentry, or the work of a carpenter. 35. Architecture, or the art of building. 36. Knowledge about gold and silver coins, and jewels and gems. 37. Chemistry and mineralogy. 38. Colouring jewels, gems and beads. 39. Knowledge of mines and quar
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