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Hocus Pocus; or The Whole Art of Legerdemain, in Perfection. / By which the meanest capacity may perform the whole without the help of a teacher. Together with the Use of all the Instruments belonging thereto. Henry Dean · How_To · 43 章
目录 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Hocus Pocus; or The Whole Art of Legerdemain, in Perfection. HOCUS POCUS; OR THE WHOLE ART OF LEGERDEMAIN, IN PERFECTION. BY HENRY DEAN. Chapter 3 THE PREFACE TO THE READER. To seem to eat knives and forks. How to put a ring through one’s cheek. How to shew the Hen and Egg-bag, and out of an empty bag to bring out above an hundred eggs, and afterwards to bring out a living hen. How to cut the blowing book. To shew the trick with the Funnel. How to make three little children dance in a glass upon a table. To make a groat or a tester to sink through a table, and to vanish out of a handkerchief strangely. Another experiment of the like nature. Of cards, with good caution how to avoid cozenage therein, especially rules to convey and handle the cards, and the manner and order how to accomplish all difficulties and strange things wrought with cards. How to make a card jump out of the pack, and run on the table. How to let twenty gentlemen draw twenty cards, and to make one card every man’s card. How to change a pack of cards into all manner of pictures. How to knit a knot upon a handkerchief, and to undo the same with words. How to take three button moulds off two strings. READER, To seem to cut a hole in a cloak, scarf, or handkerchief, and with words to make it whole again. To make a room seem to be all on fire, mighty dreadful to behold. How to walk on a hot iron bar, without danger of scalding or burning. How to make a knife leap out of a pot. How to light a candle by a glass of cold water, or other liquor, without the help of fire. To shew one what card he taketh notice of. How to make a cat draw a fellow through a pond of water. How to pull innumerable ribbons out of your mouth, of what colour you please. To draw a cord through your nose, mouth, or head, so sensible, as it is wonderful to see. To thrust a bodkin into your forehead without hurt. How to let a gentleman hold ten pieces of money in his hand, and to command them unto what number he can think on. To thrust a dagger into your guts, very strangely, and to recover immediately. To make sport with an egg. To fetch a shilling out of a handkerchief. How to make two bells come into one hand, having put into each hand one. To make sport in company. How to command a sixpence out of a box. Another way to tell one what card is noted. How to make a card jump out of an egg. To seem to kill a horse, and to cure him again. A very strange trick, whereby you may seem to cut a piece of tape into four parts, and make it whole again with words. A device to multiply one face, and make it seem to be a hundred or a thousand. To make the fulminating thundering powder. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE