What shall we do to-night? or, Social amusements for evening parties. Furnishing complete and varied programmes for twenty-six entertainments (1873)
Dick, William B. (William Brisbane), 1827-1901 · New York, Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 98
uce The Mysterious Eelease. This trick is so ingenious and interesting, that while it willprobably require your closest attention to the explanation inorder to comprehend it, will yet amply repay you for the trouble. You get a string about three feet long, tie the ends together;and your… … Fig. 43. finger and clasps it tight. Then, with the right hand draw theremaining part of the string out straight, pulling it a little to showthat it is securely fastened and cannot come off. You now pro-pose to release the string from the finger, without talking it offover the top. This seems an…
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