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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
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Some
little
fun
may
be
created
by
placing
the
upper
knobs
of
the
pillars
pincer-fashion,
one
on
each
side
of
a
person’s
nose,
the
cord
being
thus
apparently
made
to
run
right
through
the
nose.
An
air
of
greater
probability
may
be
given
to
this
curious
effect
by
first
piercing
the
nose
with
the
magic
bradawl.
This
is
in
appearance
an
ordinary
bradawl,
but
the
blade
is
so
arranged
as
to
recede
into
the
handle
on
the
slightest
pressure,
again
reappearing
(being,
in
fact,
forced
forward
by
a
spiral
spring
in
the
handle)
as
soon
as
the
pressure
is
removed.
A
duplicate
bradawl
of
ordinary
make
is
first
handed
round
for
examination,
and
the
trick
bradawl
being
adroitly
substituted,
the
performer
proceeds
therewith
to
bore
a
hole
through
the
nose
of
any
juvenile
volunteer
who
will
submit
to
the
operation.
Holding
a
piece
of
cork
on
one
side
of
the
nose,
he
apparently
thrusts
the
awl
through
the
nose,
the
sinking
of
the
blade
into
the
handle
exactly
simulating
the
effect
of
a
genuine
perforation.
(Some
performers
make
use
of
a
sponge
moistened
with
some
liquid
resembling
blood,
which
by
a
little
pressure
is
made
to
trickle
down
from
the
imaginary
wound;
but
this
is
a
piece
of
realism
which
we
think
is
better
omitted.)
The
nose
being
thus
apparently
pierced,
the
imagination
of
the
spectators
is
in
a
measure
prepared
to
accept
the
phenomenon
of
the
restored
cord
running
through
it
as
already
described.
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