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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
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THE
MAGIC
ROSE.--This
little
apparatus
affords
the
means
for
a
graceful
termination
of
a
ring
trick.
A
ring
having
been
made
to
disappear
in
any
of
the
modes
before
described,
the
operator,
retiring
for
a
moment,
returns
with
a
rose-bud
in
his
hand.
Advancing
to
the
owner
of
the
ring,
he
requests
her
to
breathe
on
the
flower.
As
she
does
so,
the
bud
is
seen
slowly
to
open,
and
in
the
centre
of
the
new-blown
flower
is
found
the
missing
article.
The
idea
of
the
flower,
warmed
into
bloom
under
a
fair
lady’s
breath,
is
so
poetical
that
it
seems
quite
a
pity
to
be
obliged
to
confess
that
the
rose
is
an
artificial
one,
made
chiefly
of
tin,
and
that
its
petals,
normally
held
open
by
the
action
of
a
spring,
are,
when
the
flower
is
first
brought
on,
kept
closed
by
a
sliding
ring
or
collar
upon
the
stalk,
again
re-opening
as
this
collar
is
drawn
back
by
the
magician’s
fingers.
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