Hoffmann (Professor), 1839-1919., Plate, Adrian, inscriber., Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) · New York : E.P. Dutton & Co. ; London : George Routledge & Sons, 1904. · leaf 41
n his right hand a tumbler three parts full of water, he an- nounces that he is about to pass it into the hat, and asks whether he shall do so visibly or invisibly. Pre- sumably with the idea that they will find out the more easily “how it’s done,’’ spectators always answer “ vis- io te tis… … same time secretly letting the shirt-cuff slip over the hand, and settle down round the glass). There is a general laugh, the audience feeling that they have been feel) “Phat s the way to do it visibly,’’ he says; “simplest thing in the world,—you just drop the glass into the hat. Any foo—fellow, I…
