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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
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The
reader,
being
acquainted
with
the
ordinary
drawer-box,
will
have
no
difficulty
in
accounting
for
the
first
harvest
of
flowers,
but
the
second
may
possibly
puzzle
him
a
little.
The
secret
lies
in
the
top
of
the
outer
case,
which,
as
we
have
already
mentioned,
is
slightly
pyramidal
in
form,
allowing
a
considerable
space
between
its
inner
and
outer
surface,
and
in
this
space
is
packed
the
second
supply
of
flowers.
This
space
is
closed
on
its
under
side
by
a
flat
wooden
slab
a,
of
the
same
area
as
the
inside
of
the
drawer,
held
in
position
by
a
thin
wooden
slip
or
bead
at
either
end.
The
hindmost
of
these
beads,
b,
is
so
arranged
as
to
yield
to
pressure,
and,
when
the
drawer
is
pushed
slightly
in,
gives
way
just
enough
to
release
the
slab
before
mentioned,
which
thereupon
falls
flat
upon
the
bottom
of
the
drawer,
and
upon
it
the
hitherto
concealed
flowers,
which,
spreading
as
they
fall,
completely
fill
the
drawer.
THE
CHANGING
CARD-DRAWER.--This
is
a
smaller
variety
of
the
drawer-box,
designed
specially
for
use
in
card
tricks.
The
inner
drawer
is
just
large
enough
to
contain
a
pack
of
cards,
which
may
thus
be
produced
or
vanished
by
its
means.
Between
the
bottoms
of
the
true
and
false
or
outer
drawer,
is
a
space
of
about
an
eighth
of
an
inch.
This
makes
the
apparatus
available
not
only
to
produce
or
vanish
as
above
mentioned,
but
to
transform
one
card
into
another.
The
card
to
be
changed
is
for
this
purpose
placed
in
the
outer
drawer,
which,
when
closed,
carries
it
under
the
bottom
of
the
inner
drawer,
and
in
this
latter
is
placed
the
card
for
which
it
is
to
be
changed,
or
vice
versâ.
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