Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 533
the missing Arab from the cone. A trip in Africa followed, then a stormy voy-age to France, and Houdins career as a publicperformer was at an end. He died in 1871. Before the day of Robert-Houdin most pro-fessors of white magic were mere mountebanks;this Frenchman made the prestidigitateur… … > & LIFE-SAVERS, OLD AND YOUNG. By Gustav Kobbe. From September i to May i nearly thewhole of our sea-coast, and a great portion ofour lake-coast, is faithfully sentineled at nightby the life-savers. Often exposed to the war-fare of the elements, they plow through heavysand or swirling…
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