The Norway Toy?
I'm reading The Paget Brothers 1790 -1840 edited by Lord Hylton and in it there is a letter from Lord Henry Fitzgerald in which he describes spending time at a house party at Hatfield. He writes: "I grew most excessively tired before three Days were over, and had it not been for the Country Sports of Battledore and Shuttlecock, the Trou-Madame table, with the Assistance of the Norway Toy, a powerful Auxiliary, I don't know how I should have survived my Excursion."
I have managed to discover that Trou-Madame was a form of bar billiards but I can't find anything about the 'Norway Toy'. Does anyone have any notion what this was?
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