Modern magic. : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. (1885)
Hoffmann, Professor, 1839-1919, Hawkins, Arthur, ca. 1940 · London ; New York : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 342
ained in your right hand When the string is returnedto you, you double it in half, and allow it to hang down betweenthe first finger and thumb of the right hand, drawing up imme-diately above it the little loop you have just formed. (See Fig.156.) You now ask some one again to cut the string, which… … MODERN MAGIC. once more restored. On being measured, it is found to have lostnothing of its length. The trick in this second form being performed by wholly differentmeans, the repetition will puzzle even tnose who knew, or believedthey knew, the modus operandi in the first case. My Grandmothers…
Magic tricks
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