Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 606
ith a long beak, take off thehead at the extreme end of the neck ; then split a cork sothat you can insert into it the neck of the bird, whichmust be tightly clipped to keep it in place ; two forks are AUlUMAiA. 43 then fixed into the cork, exactly as in the precedingexample, and into the bottom of… … Automatic puppets, movement, by pushing one of the forks as rapidly as weplease, but as much as possible without any jerk. Wethen see the two forks, and the cork surmounted by thewoodcocks head, turning on the slender pivot of a pin.Nothing can be more comical than to witness the longbeak of the…
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