Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 530
s eyes, and so, of course, igoi.] A MODERN MAGICIAN. 517 could nt be expected to tell a number unknownto the conjurer himself. But while Houdintalked, and while the spectator was boasting tohis friends that he had puzzled the famousmagician, Houdin had made a rapid calculation, twenty across the… … HOUDIN AND THE ARAB CHIEF IN ALGERIA. had found the number, and conveyed it to hisson, who said, It is No. 69, to the com-plete confusion of the smart man and thedelight of the audience. How did Houdin find out the number? He says that he knew theaters were arrangedwith even numbers on one side,…
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