later ahand came down, and immediately on that another leg. And in short all the membersof the body came thus successively tumbling from the air and were cast together intothe basket. The last fragment of all that we saw tumble down was the head, and nosooner had that touched the ground than he who… … Chinese Conjuring Extraordinary, man, who at once could stand and go just as before, without showing the leastdamage ! Never in my life was I so astonished as when I beheld this wonderfulperformance, and I doubted now no longer that these misguided men did it by thehelp of the Devil. For it seems…
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