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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
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On
the
first
two
occasions
of
showing
where
the
handkerchief
is
placed,
the
performer
really
does
exhibit
the
genuine
article;
but
at
the
third
pretended
feint,
though
he
really
does
tuck
it
under
his
waistband,
he
pulls
out
again,
not
the
same
handkerchief,
but
a
substitute,
placed
there
beforehand.
The
action
is
so
natural,
and
so
much
in
harmony
with
his
previous
acts,
that
not
one
in
a
hundred
will
suspect
that
he
has
thereby
really
changed
the
handkerchief.
The
mode
of
exchange
last
described,
ingenious
as
it
is,
has
one
serious
drawback--viz.,
that
it
gives
the
audience
a
clue
which
it
is
better
that
they
should
not
have,
and
suggests
suspicions
and
conjectures
which,
but
for
such
a
clue,
they
would
never
have
thought
of.
To
an
acute
mind,
even
such
a
slight
hint
as
this
will
suggest
enough
to
destroy
half
the
effect
of
any
subsequent
trick
in
which
a
similar
process
of
disappearance
or
exchange
is
employed,
and
even
in
the
case
of
less
intelligent
spectators
it
will
tend
to
diminish
the
prestige
of
the
performer,
by
showing
by
what
shallow
artifices
an
illusion
may
be
produced.
There
are
two
or
three
pieces
of
apparatus
for
effecting
the
exchange
of
a
handkerchief
by
mechanical
means.
A
very
good
one
is
that
known
as
“The
Washerwoman’s
Bottle,”
in
conjunction
with
which
we
will
take
the
opportunity
of
describing
the
very
effective
trick
known
as
THE
LOCKED
AND
CORDED
BOX.--The
“Washerwoman’s
Bottle”
is
a
simple
and
inexpensive
piece
of
apparatus,
of
frequent
use
in
handkerchief
tricks.
In
appearance
it
is
an
ordinary
black
bottle,
save
that
it
has
a
rather
shorter
neck
and
wider
mouth
than
the
generality
of
such
vessels.
In
reality
it
is
made
of
tin,
japanned
black,
and
is
divided
by
a
vertical
partition,
commencing
just
below
the
mouth,
into
two
compartments.
One
of
these
has
a
bottom,
but
the
other
has
none,
forming,
in
fact,
a
mere
passage
through
the
bottle.
In
the
bottomed
compartment
is
placed
beforehand
a
piece
of
cambric,
or
dummy
handkerchief,
also
about
a
glassful
of
port
wine,
or
some
other
liquor
of
similar
colour.
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