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INTRODUCTION
PALMING
TRICKS WITH COINS
TRICKS WITH COMMON OBJECTS
TRICKS WITH CUPS & BALLS
TRICKS WITH HANDKERCHIEFS
CHINESE TRICKS
TRICKS AT TABLE
GENERAL REMARKS
THE TABLE & DRESS
SLEIGHTS & PROPERTIES FOR GENERAL USE
TRICKS WITH CARDS
TRICKS WITH HANDKERCHIEFS & GLOVES
MISCELLANEOUS
THE CORNUCOPIAN HAT
TRICKS WITH WATCHES & LIVE STOCK
SHAM MESMERISM, CLAIRVOYANCE, etc.
FINAL INSTRUCTIONS
SLEIGHTS AND PROPERTIES FOR GENERAL USE

HOW TO PRODUCE ARTICLES FROM THE WAND--ARTICLES PRODUCED FROM THE PERSONS OF THE COMPANY--VANISHING OBJECTS FROM THE HANDS--EXCHANGING ARTICLES-- MESMERISING A DOVE--MARKING A CARD IN COURSE OF PERFORMING--PASSING HANDKERCHIEF OVER FLAME OF CANDLE--THE CONJUROR'S SHUFFLE--THE DEVIL'S HANDKERCHIEF -- COIN HANDKERCHIEF -- FLYING RING -- MAGICIAN'S EGGS -- PRODUCTIVE EGGS -- COIN-VANISHING TUMBLER--MAGIC PLATEAU.

The Coin Hankerchief.--This is an ordinary coloured handkerchief, into one corner of which, by means of a small extra piece of stuff, is sewn a piece of metal (to avoid unnecessary sinking of capital) resembling a coin. The performer should have on hand three handkerchiefs prepared with pieces of metal to represent sixpences, shillings, and half-crowns. For the latter, a penny will do admirably, and it will also act for florins and pennies, the public not being able to appreciate the slight difference in size when felt or seen through the folds of a handkerchief. The shilling handkerchief will answer admirably for halfpennies. A borrowed coin is apparently folded in the handkerchief, which the performer has drawn carelessly from his pocket, and not had lying in state upon a table, but palmed instead, the dummy being presented in its place, and given to be held. The palmed coin is then secreted in the place to which it is presently to be magically transported. To cause the coin, supposed to be wrapped in the handkerchief, to disappear, the performer shakes it by one or two corners, as in the case of the Devil's Handkerchief. Each of the three prepared handkerchiefs should be of the same pattern, so that, if more than one are used on the same evening, no remark will be excited as to the appearance of a new property upon the scene.