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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
627
THE
MAGIC
PORTFOLIO.--The
performer
comes
forward
with
a
large
portfolio,
such
as
is
used
to
contain
engravings,
and
barely
an
inch
in
thickness.
This
he
places
sideways
to
the
audience,
upon
a
stand
or
trestle,
thereby
raising
it
to
a
convenient
height,
and
at
the
same
time
negativing
the
possibility
of
its
having
any
communication
with
the
floor
of
the
stage.
Standing
behind
it,
he
proceeds
to
take
from
it
a
number
of
large
engravings,
then
a
couple
of
lady’s
bonnets
of
the
latest
fashion,
and
showing
no
sign
of
creasing
or
compression.
These
are
followed
by
a
large
bird-cage,
containing
a
number
of
living
birds;
and
finally
by
three
brass
stew-pans,
one
containing
haricot
beans;
a
second,
water;
and
a
third,
fire.
Other
articles
are
sometimes
produced,
but
the
above
are
those
most
generally
used.
This
really
surprising
trick
is
performed
by
the
simplest
possible
means.
The
bonnets
and
the
bird-cage
are
made
to
fold
nearly
flat,
on
the
principle
of
the
reticules
and
bird-cages
described
at
pages
309
and
311.
In
this
flattened
condition
they
are
placed
in
the
portfolio,
which
being
turned
sideways
to
the
audience,
and
the
performer
standing
behind
it,
the
side
which
is
towards
the
spectators
naturally
forms
a
cover
for
the
operator,
and
gives
him
every
facility
for
developing
the
folded
articles.
The
stew-pans,
however,
cannot
be
made
thus
compressible,
and
consequently
a
different
plan
is
adopted
in
respect
of
them.
These
have
india-rubber
covers,
after
the
manner
of
the
bowls
of
gold-fish,
and,
like
them,
are
concealed
about
the
person
of
the
performer,
who,
producing
them
under
cover
of
the
portfolio,
appears
to
take
them
out
of
it.
The
pan
for
the
fire
contains
a
little
spirits
of
wine,
which
the
performer,
still
behind
the
portfolio,
ignites
with
a
wax
match
before
producing
this
particular
pan.
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