Popular pastimes for amusement and instruction : being a standard work on games, plays, magic, and natural phenomena suitable for all occasions : containing parlor games, charming tableaux, tricks of magic, charades and conundrums, curious puzzles, phrenology and mind reading, palmistry or how to read the hand, humorous and pathetic recitations, dialogues, etc., etc. : including the delightful art of entertaining, the whole forming a charming treasury of pastimes for the home, public schools and academies, lodges, social gatherings, Sunday schools, etc., etc. (1901)
Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Philadelphia : National Publishing Co. · leaf 143
eview of the spectators; this must be care-fully done, or the company will discoverthe wax on the coin. You must now press on the coin veryhard with your thumb, so as to make itadhere to the handkerchief; when you have done this, fold over successively thecorners marked B, C and D, and the… … FIG. NO. 3. sented in Fig. No. 3, at the opening A,and sliding your fingers along the edge ofthe same, it will become unfolded, and thecoin, adhering to the corner of the hand-kerchief, will of course come into yourright hand ; then detach the coin shakeout the handerchief, and to the great…
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