The boy magician : a large number of the latest and best tricks carefully selected for the rising generation of conjurers (1922)
Dixie, Raymond, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Boston : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. · leaf 126
ade. Get a wooden ball of any size,but preferably about two inches in diameter, and spHt it intwo. Then with the sharp point of a knife cut a zigzaggroove in each of the flat surfaces so that they will match,as shown at B. Put a string (a piece of fish-line, about ayard long, is the best) in the… … B-THE HALVES OF THEBALL SHOWING GROOVE
Magic tricks
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