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Conjuring

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QLASSICAL CONJURING By

HUGH MACKAY Member, ^Uhe Magic Circle, London ; International Brotherhood of Magicians.

HUGH MACKAY, 69 NORTHUMBERLAND STREET, EDINBURGH.

1925

Bishop

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Printers 2\icolson Sg'uu/g, Edinburgh

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LOVINGLY DEDICATED TO

MARGARET M. MACKAY.

CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTION

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MISCELLANEOUS

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EXPERIMENTS—

The Slave Bangle Camouflage

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A String Variation

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A Marked Pack

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Three Good Tricks

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R e m o v i n g u n d e r Difficulties A Problem with Cards A Card Square

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Values

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A Puzzling Location

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A Suitable Key-Card

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Stage Billet R e a d i n g The Interperter

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T h e Roll Call

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T h e Carrier

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Intelligent Fingers

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Reconstruction

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INTRODUCTION. IN offering this book to the magical fraternity, it has not been my intention to produce a work of literary merit, but merely to compile a number of my own practical items—a few of which have already appeared in the magical press— and to solicit the very helpful assistance of others.

My grateful acknowledgements are due, first, to Mr Will Goldston, Editor of the Magazine of Magic, for his kind permission to use " The Slave Bangle" and " Stage Billet Reading," together with illustration for the latter. To the same gentleman for his valuable assistance by contributing " Three Good Tricks." Second, to Mr George Johnson, of the Magic Wand, for his kindness in allowing me to use " Removing under Difficulties" with illustration, and " A Problem with Cards." Third, to Mr Alex. Johnston, of Edinburgh, for completing, with such clearness, the other drawings.

The MSS. of " A String Variation," " A Marked Pack," " Values," " Removing under Difficulties," " A Problem with Cards," and " Stage Billet Reading,'' I am pleased to credit to Miss Margaret Mackay, who, by the way, is not the little girl to whom the book is^dedicated.

Like many writers on matters magical, I must claim originality ; but for one item only—the mistakes ; these are really my own.

HUGH MACKAY. EDINBURGH,

November 1925.