Later magic, with new miscellaneous tricks and recollections of Hartz the Wizard (1911)
Hoffmann (Professor), 1839-1919 · New York, E. P. Dutton & company; [etc., etc.] · leaf 165
Later Magic 135 In the act of twisting the sheet of paper into a bag the mouth of this pocket (which is kept on the inner side) is opened, and the watch is dropped therein. When the paper is again spread out, and held by the … comers a and d, or d and c, the watch has disappeared, but does not fall, being in fact comfortably resting in the angle b. Another method of forming the bag is to take a four-page sheet of some periodical of convenient size, as shown in Fig. 95, and to prepare it by pasting a
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