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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
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VII.
BAUTIER’S
GREAT
INK-AND-WATER
TRICK.--This
trick,
first
introduced
by
Bautier,
at
the
Egyptian
Hall,
London,
has,
to
the
best
of
my
belief,
never
before
been
explained.
It
is
a
remarkably
clever
deception,
and,
when
dexterously
performed,
defies
detection.
It
consists
in
showing
a
decanter
filled
with
ink
and
another
with
water,
and
while
each
decanter
is
held
by
one
of
the
audience,
making
the
contents
of
each
change
places,
the
ink
going
into
the
one
containing
water,
while
the
pure
liquid
is
found
in
the
one
in
which
the
ink
was
seen.
Take
two
water
bottles
or
decanters,
and
in
one
place
a
tassel
of
black
fleecy
wool,
just
long
enough
to
touch
the
bottom
of
the
bottle.
The
tassel
must
be
tied
by
a
knot
at
the
top,
and
a
small
piece
of
string
just
hanging
over
the
mouth
of
the
bottle,
attached
to
the
knot.
Then
fill
the
glass
with
water.
The
bottle
thus
prepared
looks
at
a
short
distance
like
a
bottle
of
ink,
and
you
have
only
to
tell
your
audience
that
it
is
so
to
make
them
believe
it.
This,
I
am
afraid,
is
inculcating
in
the
mind
of
the
reader
the
principle
of
falsehood--at
least
Mrs.
Grundy
might
say
so;
but
a
professor
of
magic
is
doing
nothing
but
telling
“crammers”
from
the
commencement
to
the
conclusion
of
his
entertainment.
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