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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
ball
is
then
got
rid
of
in
one
or
other
of
the
modes
before
described,
and
a
pretence
is
made
of
passing
it
invisibly
into
the
box.
The
lid
is
removed
without
the
intermediate
portion
b,
and
the
ball
appears
to
have
returned
to
the
box.
Again
the
lid
is
replaced,
and
again
removed;
but
this
time
b
is
removed
with
it,
and
the
box
again
appears
empty.
The
trick
in
this
form
is
to
be
found
in
every
toy-shop,
and
is
so
well
known
as
to
produce
scarcely
any
illusion,
but
its
transparency
may
be
considerably
diminished
by
previously
palming
(in
the
right
hand)
the
moveable
shell
b,
the
convex
side
being
inwards,
and
then
handing
round
the
remaining
portions
and
the
solid
ball
for
inspection.
When
they
are
returned,
the
performer
apparently
places
the
ball
in
the
box,
but
really
makes
a
secret
exchange,
and
places
b
in
the
box
instead.
Upon
again
removing
the
lid,
and
with
it
b,
the
ball
has
disappeared;
and
as
the
audience
have,
as
they
believe,
inspected
the
whole
apparatus,
the
mode
of
its
disappearance
is
not
quite
so
obvious
as
in
the
first
case.
At
best,
however,
the
ball-box,
in
this
its
pristine
form,
is
a
clumsy
and
inartistic
contrivance,
and
has
long
been
relegated
to
the
juvenile
and
country-fair
school
of
conjuring.
There
is,
however,
an
improved
apparatus
for
producing
a
similar
effect,
which
is
generally
worked
in
couples,
under
the
name
of
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
