The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 454
s of tightcovers over the bowls, how could the flowers possibly be there ?and yet they will say to themselves, they saw the bowl in thecloth (the copper ring) before the conjuror went near the chair.Here, again, we have the full advantage of the doublemethod. Any explanation of the bowl of fish… … THE TAKQET TRICK. Fig. 1. cloth, the copper ring from his side; this he places in the cloth,and of course by slightly letting the cloth fall it has exactlythe same appearance as if another bowl were there. The conjuror must smile as if the trick was completed, andwill, in all probability, hear the…
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