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I have great pleasure in dedicating this book to my inseparable chumB. WAYRE. He is loved by some, liked by many, and hated by- but why mention those who do not count. He is generous to a. fault, and anything he may possess is mine for the asking- or taking. He is a perfect specimen of manhood, and has lived an upright, honest, and blameless life. Should his memory be perpetuated ( as it should be ) by the erection of a statue, i trust to be the first one to raise my hat in front of it.
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Introduction. The Mysterious Box of Parvo. "Bloodless" Writing on the Arm. Improved Card Frames. Mister Makeshift. The Necromantic Mummy. Improved Passe-Passe Bottles. The Only Bug. The Real Magic Funnel. The Travelling (IIass. A Magical Accessory. . Patter. " A l l - i n " Monument Trick The Kew-rious Pagoda Patter. Super Divination. "Any Card" Box. Ventriloquial Dialogue:- "I^it'tie." My Thanks to the M-igic Ciivle. The Professor's Seat, The World, The Flesh, and The Devil. Magic of the Depots - V.m. Forty Years In & Around Magic. List of Magical Depots.
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INTRODUCTION. The tricks described in this book have not yet been placed on the market, or shown in public. They are not old tricks that the writer has already worked to death, and lias no further use for-exeept as a means of raising money in book form; or imaginary tricks that will not work when put into practice. They are tricks that th â&#x20AC;˘ writer had hoped to place on the market, but has been prevented through other business interests. The cheap trick that retails for a few pence, or a shilling or two, serves its purpose generally as a pocket trick with which the purchaser amuses his friends wh.'ii congregated in small numbers; but it seldom gvts into tin regular programme of a Conjurer. The cheap trick may be quite good, but the price has made it too popular, and popularity will kill a trick the same as it will kill a song. Therefore 1 have not aimed at writing up tricks that could be bought for a shilling or less, bjcausj they would 1KI quite useless to the real Performer. The description of a tricky piece of apparatus, well thought out, is moiv likely to help the Performer with original ideas of his own, than all the pocket stunts, and cheap effects, ever placed on the market.
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