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 347
of eighteenor twenty inches in length. This allows him to move about withoutany hindrance. On each side of the head of the figure is a littleslanting cut, tending in a perpendicular direction, and about half aninch in length. The divided portions of the card-board are bent backa,little, thus… … a moderately dark background, it re-mains wholly invisible. When he firstplaces the figure on the ground, he doe?so simply, and the figure naturally falls- He makes a few sham mesmeric passesover it, but still it falls. At the thirdor fourth attempt, however, he placesit so that the little hooks…
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