Museum Collections

lithographed: on box lid, top: "GAME OF/DR. BUSBY/PLAY CUCKOO FOR FUN" lithographed: on box lid, bottom: "PUBLISHED BY J.H. SINGER, N.Y." printed: captions at the bottom of each card: e.g. "CAESAR MELON, Dr. Busby's Coachman."; "BULLY BOY, The Butcher's Son."; "MOLLY COD, The Fishmonger's Daughter." printed: on piece of paper: "Game of Dr. Busby./Shuffle the cards and distribute them equally/to the players. Any player, as agreed, can/commence the game by calling on his right-/hand neighbor for any card he has not in his/own hand. If his neighbor holds the card/called he must give it up; he must then call/again, and so continue until he calls for some/card which his neighbor does not hold; then/the player on his left side calls on the first player; calling first for the cards which have been/called and obtained by him./When a player has called all the cards from/his right hand neighbor, thus putting him out/of the game, he must continue to call from the/next on his right./At the close of the game/the victor will have all four families united in/his hand/PUBLISHED BY/[J.] H. SINGER, NEW YORK, U.S.A."