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 527
Later Magic 505 Some of the passes exhibited with the one thimble may be executed still more effectively with two. Thus the thimble may be placed (after the deceptive fashion already described) in the mouth, and reproduced with the other hand from the back of the head. It may then be inserted in… … hands down thrice with a slap upon the knees, at the same time (after the manner of the “Fly away, Jack; fly away, Jill” of our childhood) saying, “One, two, three!” At the word “three” the thimble passes from the forefinger on which it was first seen to the other. The principle of the trick once…
Magic tricks
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