Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 563
ed. Before taking up more pretentious tricks, letme introduce a little dinner-table sleight that mayserve to amuse. For want of a better title let mecall it A BROKEN MATCH The performer spreads a handkerchief on thetable and on the center of the handkerchief laysa borrowed match. ■ The handkerchief… … Tin: TILTING G(Jiii.i;r. the match is unmistakably broken. Yet on open-ing the handkerchief, the match is found to be assound as at first. Nor is it to be wondered at, for ill the lion of the handkerchief the performerhas concealed a second match, and this it is hebreaks. THE TILTING GOBLET Picking…
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