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The Magnetic Ring 1
To Tell the Hour 2
The Spirit Calculator 3
The Square of Sixteen Numbers 5
The Square of Nine Digits 5
Making a Bird Enter a Cage 6
The Handkerchief Snake 6
To Pass Your Body Through a Postal Card 7
Silhouettes 8
Gymnastics for the Tongue 9
The Passenger to Boulogne 9
Mind-reading 10
Blowing a Card on Twine 12
Naming a Card 12
A Horse Race 14
A Jam-eating Contest 15
A Potato Race 15
Guessing Contests 16
A Phonograph Concert 17
To Lift Fifteen Matches with One 18
A Donkey Party 19
The Dwarf Exhibit 19
Stick-and-Pea Amusement 22
An Introduction to the Doll Family 22
Second Sight 24
The Blind Feeding the Blind 25
An Amateur Vaudeville 25
The Elusive Coin 25
Novel Paper-cutting 26
The Mysterious Remainder 27
Home Field-Sports 29
(a) One-yard Dash 29
(b) Tug of War 29
(c) Standing High Jump 29
(d) Hurdle Race 29
(e) Drinking Race 30
(f) Bun Race 30
(g) Cracker-eating Contest 30
(h) Rainy-Day Race 30
The Gentlemen Nurse-Maids 31
New Year’s Resolutions for Others 32
Can You Draw a Watch-face? 33
The Endless Thread 34
The Telltale Glass 35
Pairing Ten Half-dimes 37
Deceptive Heights 37
(a) Of a Hat 37
(b) Of a Barrel 37
Slang 38
Observation Contest 39
The Bargain-counter Game 39
The “Thirty-five” Trick 41
An Ink Shock 42
Reading from Folded Papers 42
Blind Man’s Buff with Dominoes 43
“My Aunt Has Arrived from Paris” 44
Surprising Strength 45
Card-passing Contest 46
A Cobweb Tangle 47
A Novel Masquerade 47
Hit the Bag 48
A Pretended Illusion 49
Dancing Fairies 49
Describing a Lady’s Costume 50
The Wonderful Hat 51
Mirror-Drawing 51
The Dancing Skeleton 53
Pitching Cards at a Hat 54
Peanut Guessing 54
Peanut Shelling 54
Peanut Rolling 55
The Peanut Hunt 55
Progressive Peanut Party 55
Your Friends in Black 57
GAMES
Packing the Trunk 59
Blowing Ping-pong Balls 60
Doing the Impossible 60
The Game of “It” 61
The Game of “Turtle” 63
The Game of “Empty Hands” 64
Simon Says 65
Passing Bean-bags 66
Buzz 67
Can You Laugh? 68
An Optical Game 68
Blowing the Feather 69
Throwing the Handkerchief 70
Going to Jerusalem 71
Find the Whistle 71
The All-around Story Game 72
An Obstacle Game 72
Impudence 73
Rolling Chase-ball 74
TRICKS
The Sharpers Outwitted 76
The Raised Hand 78
Unconscious Movements 78
The Broken Match Restored 79
The Cent and the Hole 80
Mysterious Reading 81
The Baffling Card 83
A Watch Trick 83
Silk from Paper 84
The Obedient Ball 86
Tricks with a Pen 87
The Dice and Cup 88
The Surprising Paper Bands 89
Napkin-ring Trick 89
The Magical Cups of Tin 90
The Elusive Cork 92
The Three Pennies 92
A Lesson in Gravity 93
The Tantalizing Half-dollar 93
Drawing Matches to Win 94
Eye-errors and Ghosts 96
The Detaining Hand-clasp 98
The Pictorial Nail 99
Cane Trick 99
PANTOMIMES
General Directions 101
Aerial Figures 103
Silhouettes 105
Shadow Pictures 106
Shadow Show 106
CARD TRICKS
Calling the Cards 110
The Odd Card 114
Naming the Cards 116
A Diamond Ace of Hearts 117
A Three-card Trick 118
Detection by Smell 119
Naming a Drawn Card 121
Grouping the Kings 123
Detecting a Turned Card 124
Telling the Number of Transposed Cards 124
The Three Packets 127
A Card Found at the Second Guess 127
Pocketing a Chosen Card 128
To Pick Out a Card Thought Of 131
The Siamese Aces 133
Detection of a Drawn Card by Color 136
Mathematical Detection of Card 137
Passing a Card to Top of Pack 138
The Trick of “Thirty-one” 140
SOAP-BUBBLES
Blowing Soap-bubbles 142
Fantastic Soap-bubbles 143
Rebounding Bubbles 145