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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
570
A
further
improvement
consists
in
the
use,
in
place
of
the
salver,
of
a
small
round
table,
or
guéridon,
made
on
the
same
principle
(without
the
hammer),
and
worked
by
pulling
a
string
from
behind
the
scenes.
With
a
little
dexterity,
the
articles
may
be
introduced
into
the
“ladle,”
while
in
the
act
of
placing
the
glass
upon
the
table,
or
of
moving
the
latter
to
the
front
of
the
stage,
though
it
is
more
usual
to
do
this
behind
the
scenes,
and
then
to
bring
the
table
forward,
as
described
in
the
case
of
the
salver.
The
trick
may
be
varied
by
borrowing
four
half-crowns
or
florins,
duly
marked,
which,
being
exchanged,
and
their
substitutes
placed
in
the
half-crown
casket
(see
page
202),
are
thence
made
to
pass
one
by
one
into
the
glass.
THE
VANISHING
DIE.--The
effect
of
this
trick,
in
its
simplest
shape,
is
merely
to
make
a
die,
some
three
inches
square,
pass
through
the
crown
of
a
hat,
and
be
found
inside.
The
trick
in
this
form
is
but
a
poor
and
transparent
affair,
but
it
is
sometimes
useful
as
affording
a
pretext
for
borrowing
a
hat
which
you
design
to
make
use
of
for
some
other
purpose;
and
it
furnishes
the
germ
of
two
or
three
really
effective
illusions.
The
apparatus
consists
of
three
portions--a
solid
wooden
die,
generally
painted
black
with
white
spots,
a
tin
counterpart
thereof,--fitting
loosely
over
it,
and
exactly
similar
in
appearance,
but
with
one
side
open,--and
an
ornamental
cover
of
thin
pasteboard
(sometimes
this
also
is
of
tin),
fitting
in
like
manner
over
the
hollow
die.
The
trick
is
worked
very
much
after
the
manner
of
the
“cone,”
recently
described.
The
performer
comes
forward,
having
the
solid
die
in
the
one
hand,
and
the
cover,
with
the
tin
counterpart
within
it,
in
the
other.
Placing
these
on
the
table,
he
borrows
two
hats,
which
he
likewise
places
on
the
table,
mouth
upwards.
“Ladies
and
gentlemen,”
he
commences,
“I
have
here
a
block
of
wood”
(he
lets
it
fall
on
the
floor,
the
sound
sufficiently
indicating
its
solidity,
and
again
picks
it
up),
“and
a
cover
of
simple
pasteboard.”
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