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 502
where she lies, compressingherself into as small a compass as possible, along the back. Know-ing the position which she occupies, it is not a ver) difficultmatter for the operator so to direct the thrusts of the sword as toavoid any risk of injuring her. The chief thing to be attended to forthis… … Fig. 301. sponge saturated with some crimson fluid, or by a mechanical arrange-ment in the hilt, causing the supposed blood, on pressure, to trickledown the blade. The only point that remains to be explained is the difficulty whichwill probably already have suggested itself to the reader, viz.,…
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