The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 709
the whole time, and only leaves the conjurorshands when he places it down on the table, or side slabs, whilehe assists in handing the glasses round. He now requests the persons who are on the stage to retaketheir seats, and still keeping the bottle in his hand walks behindthe large table in the… … LEGERDEMAIN. 313 hand; and now comes the most effective part of the trick. Port,sherry, brandy, rum, gin, whisky, follow one another—everyimaginable liqueur in existence seems to be there—and on someone being supplied with a glass of castor-oil, a well-merited roundof applause ensues. Eetreating…
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