e performer having securely slopped the Flacon and coveredit over with a borrowed handkerchief, commands the wine drank bythe person, (who still holds the Falcon in his hand) to leave hisbody, and flow through his arm into the stopped Flacon. Presto !tis done! For upon the borrowed handkerchief… … No. 281—CRYSTAL BOWL AND GOLD FISH. The performer stands in front of the company, showing there isnothing concealed about him. He takes a thin cloth, or a shawl,turning it inside out, throwing it up in the air, and catching it toprove it is perfectly empty ; then in an instant he produces fromthe…
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