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Later magic (1904)

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 540

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at the per- former is using his own hat. “In my next experiment I use that most respectable article, a top hat. Would you mind seeing that it is empty, sir. Nothing in it, is there? No, there never has been much—I always wear it myself. “The apparatus I am going to use is very simple. For instance,… … the regular sand-bag—sugar-bag, I mean; and a glass jar and a plate. You can see througm vis jaa lt isn’t one of those nasty family jars that you can’t see through—in fact nobody wants to see at all. ‘Now I fill this jar with water’’ (he fills it to within half an inch of the brim), “ ordinary wet…

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