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Magic; stage illusions and scientific diversions, including trick photography (1897)

Hopkins, Albert A. (Albert Allis), 1869-1939, Evans, Henry Ridgely, b. 1861 · London : Low · leaf 135

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ce the three eggs upon a plate. AVithin the left-hand side of your waistcoat place a fiatcake, and then make your a])i)earance before the spec^tators. Having borrowed a hat, place it upon the table, and, after secretly intro-ducing the cake into it (Fig. 4), take an empty egg, crack the shell upon… … FIG. 5. CONJURING TRICKS. 119 feet egg and let it fall upon the plate so that it will break and its contentsflow oat. Then take the remaining egg and operate as with the first. All youhave to do then is to pass the hat back and forth a few times over the flame ofa candle in order to cook the mass…

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