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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
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These
are
placed,
the
boxes
together
and
the
lids
together,
anywhere
so
as
to
be
just
out
of
sight
of
the
audience.
If
on
your
table,
they
may
be
hidden
by
any
more
bulky
article.
Having
secretly
obtained
possession,
by
either
of
the
means
before
described,
of
a
coin
which
is
ostensibly
deposited
in
some
other
piece
of
apparatus,
e.g.,
the
Davenport
Cabinet,
you
seize
your
opportunity
to
drop
it
into
the
innermost
box,
and
to
put
on
the
united
lids.
You
then
bring
forward
the
nest
of
boxes
(which
the
spectators
naturally
take
to
be
one
box
only),
and
announce
that
the
shilling
will
at
your
command
pass
from
the
place
in
which
it
has
been
deposited
into
the
box
which
you
hold
in
your
hand,
and
which
you
forthwith
deliver
to
one
of
the
audience
for
safe
keeping.
Touching
both
articles
with
the
mystic
wand,
you
invite
inspection
of
the
first
to
show
that
the
money
has
departed,
and
then
of
the
box,
wherein
it
is
to
be
found.
The
holder
opens
the
box,
and
finds
another,
and
then
another,
and
in
the
innermost
of
all
the
marked
coin.
Seeing
how
long
the
several
boxes
have
taken
to
open,
the
spectators
naturally
infer
that
they
must
take
as
long
to
close,
and
(apart
from
the
other
mysteries
of
the
trick),
are
utterly
at
a
loss
to
imagine
how,
with
the
mere
moment
of
time
at
your
command,
you
could
have
managed
to
insert
the
coin,
and
close
so
many
boxes.
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