Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

CHAPTER IX. TRICKS WITH WATCHES. To indicate on the Dial of a Watch the Hour secretly thought of by any of the Company 213 To Bend a Borrowed Watch Backwards and Forwards 214 The Watch-mortar and the Magic Pistol 215 The “Snuff-box Vase” 217 The “Watch Box” 219 The “Watch Target” 220 The Mesmerised Watch. (To Make any Watch a Repeater) 222 CHAPTER X. TRICKS WITH RINGS. The Flying Ring 225 To Pass a Ring from the one Hand to either Finger of the other Hand 227 To Pass a Ring through a Pocket-handkerchief 228 To Pass a Ring through the Table 228 To Pass a Ring invisibly upon the Middle of a Wooden Wand, the Ends being held by two of the Spectators 230 The Magic Ball and Rings 231 To Pass a Borrowed Ring into an Egg 233 The Magic Rose 234