Fifty years in the magic circle; being an account of the author's professional life; his wonderful tricks and feats; with laughable incidents, and adventures as a magician, necromancer, and ventriloquist (1871)
CHAPTER XVm. MT VISIT TO THE SOUTH. … and day the hall was literally crammed with people, whose upturned faces beamed with surprise and laughter. The more intelligent class of the community took a reasonable, common ^ense view of my feats, while others looked upon me as an emissary from the dark shades of Hades, sent to tan- talize and…
Magic tricks
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