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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
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Numerous
other
good
tricks
may
be
performed
with
the
aid
of
these
boxes,
which
should
form
part
of
the
collection
of
every
conjuror.
By
placing
a
given
card
beforehand
beneath
the
false
bottom
and
forcing
a
like
card,
you
may
allow
the
card
drawn
to
be
torn
into
twenty
pieces,
and
yet,
by
placing
the
fragments
in
the
box,
or
firing
them
at
it
from
a
pistol,
restore
the
card
instantly,
as
at
first.
In
like
manner,
you
may
cause
a
given
card
to
be
found
in
the
apparently
empty
box,
or
may
cause
a
card
openly
placed
therein
to
vanish
altogether.
The
changing-box
is
also
sometimes
employed
by
those
who
are
not
proficient
in
sleight-of-hand,
as
a
substitute
for
forcing,
in
the
following
manner:--The
performer
requests
some
person
to
draw
a
card,
and,
without
looking
at
it,
to
place
it
face
downwards
in
the
box
for
supposed
safe
keeping.
The
box
is
presently
opened
by
the
same
or
some
other
person,
who
is
requested
to
note
what
the
card
is.
He
does
so,
believing
the
card
to
be
that
which
was
drawn,
and
which
he
had
just
before
seen
placed
in
the
box;
whereas
the
card
he
now
examines
is,
in
reality,
one
concealed
beforehand
in
the
box
by
the
performer
to
suit
his
purpose,
the
card
actually
drawn
being
now
hidden
by
the
false
bottom.
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