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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
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He
now
requests
two
of
the
younger
spectators
to
step
forward,
and
assist
him
with
the
trick.
A
couple
of
volunteers
having
been
procured,
they
are
made
to
salute
the
audience,
and
are
then
seated
upon
chairs
at
each
side
of
the
stage,
each
being
entrusted
with
one
of
the
coffers,
which,
that
all
may
see,
they
are
requested
to
hold
with
both
hands
above
their
heads.
The
performer,
standing
between
them,
says,
“Now,
young
gentlemen,
I
must
caution
you
to
hold
tight,
or
the
electrical
forces
which
are
rapidly
generating
in
these
magic
coffers
will
carry
them
clean
away,
and
possibly
you
along
with
them.
Now,
first
please
tell
me,
just
to
start
fair,
which
coffer
is
it
that
you
have
got,
sir,
the
one
with
the
beans,
or
the
one
with
the
coffee-berries?”
The
chances
are
ten
to
one
against
the
extempore
assistants
remembering
which
was
which,
and
the
majority
of
the
audience
will
be
equally
uncertain.
The
professor
pretends
surprise
and
disappointment.
“Ladies
and
gentlemen,
you
cannot
possibly
appreciate
the
beauty
of
these
philosophical
experiments
unless
you
follow
them
carefully
from
the
commencement.
I
will
open
the
coffers
once
more.”
So
saying,
he
opens
first
the
one
coffer
and
then
the
other,
taking
care,
however,
to
lift
the
lids
only,
so
that
the
one
which
really
contains
the
coffee-berries
shows
the
layer
of
beans,
and
that
which
contains
the
beans
the
layer
of
coffee-berries.
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