More Conjuring: Simple Tricks for Social Gatherings
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By HERCAT.
HERCAT’S SIMPLE TRICKS
MORE CONJURING
BY HERCAT
Simple Tricks for Social Gatherings
BY THE AUTHOR OF “LATEST SLEIGHTS AND ILLUSIONS,” “HERCAT’S CARD TRICKS,” “CONJURING UP TO DATE,” “HERCAT’S VENTRILOQUIST,” “HERCAT’S CHAPEAUGRAPHY, SHADOWGRAPHY, AND PAPER FOLDING,” ETC.
For tricks which require apparatus my readers cannot do better than to send to Messrs. Hamley Bros., Ltd., 35, New Oxford Street, or one of their branches, for their Magical Catalogue.
The Daily Telegraph , in a recent article on “Magic Fifty Years Ago,” used these words: “Hamleys’ were then, as they are now, the premier manufacturers of magical apparatus.” A statement which I cordially endorse. The apparatus sold by Messrs. Hamley Bros. is invariably reliable.
In conclusion I beg to offer my readers the following advice:—
Never state the nature of the trick you are about to perform.
Hercat
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
More Conjuring.
PREFACE
CONTENTS
SIMPLE CARD TRICKS
AN EASY METHOD OF FINDING A SELECTED CARD
TO BRING A CHOSEN CARD FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE PACK AT ANY NUMBER REQUESTED
A CHOSEN CARD SHAKEN THROUGH A HANDKERCHIEF
A SELECTED CARD FOUND IN A LIGHTED CIGARETTE
A STICKING CARD
TWO SELECTED CARDS CAUGHT IN THE AIR
AN EASY BUT PUZZLING TRICK
TRAVELLING CARDS
TO NAME ALL THE CARDS IN THE PACK
A NEW METHOD
THE SENSE OF TOUCH
WHERE IS THE ACE?
TO MAKE A PERSON NAME A CARD WHICH YOU HAVE YOURSELF SELECTED
THE CLOCK
HOW TO GUESS CARDS THOUGHT OF
AN INGENIOUS CARD TRICK
TO NAME A CARD WHICH SOME ONE HAS THOUGHT OF
THE REJECTED RECRUITS—A LAUGHABLE TRICK
A NOVEL CARD EFFECT
AN ARTFUL CARD FORCE
ANOTHER EASY CARD FORCE
A SIMPLE BUT PUZZLING CARD TRICK
SIMPLE COIN TRICKS
HOW TO DETECT A MARKED COIN
A PENETRATIVE SHILLING
ANOTHER SIMPLE TRICK
A COIN TO DISAPPEAR FROM YOUR CHEEK AND REAPPEAR AT YOUR ELBOW
TWO VANISHED HALF-CROWNS
A DIVINATION
AN EFFECTIVE BUT SIMPLE TRICK
CHANGING APPLE AND COINS
AN OBEDIENT SIXPENCE
COIN AND GLASS
A SIMPLE EXPERIMENT WITH FOUR SHILLINGS
PUZZLE OF TEN HALFPENCE
HOW TO INCREASE YOUR WEALTH
A NEAT COIN TRICK
A SUBTLE IMPROMPTU EFFECT WITH A COIN
AN ORIGINAL COIN SWINDLE
A CROSS
SIMPLE TRICKS WITH HANDKERCHIEFS, RINGS, CANDLES, ETC.
A KNOT THAT CANNOT BE DRAWN TIGHT
TO TIE AN INSTANTANEOUS KNOT IN A HANDKERCHIEF
HALF A BURNT MESSAGE FOUND RESTORED IN A CANDLE
TWO GOOD RING TRICKS
SIMPLE ARITHMETICAL PROBLEMS
TO ASCERTAIN A NUMBER THOUGHT OF
HOW TO NAME A NUMBER WHICH HAS BEEN ERASED
A LESSON IN THE CORRECT FORMATION OF A FIGURE
FOUR NINES PROBLEM
AN ANSWER TO A SUM GIVEN IN ADVANCE
AN ARITHMETICAL PUZZLE
AN ARITHMETICAL MYSTERY
HOW TO TELL HER AGE
A RACE IN ADDITION
TO PREDICT THE HOUR YOUR FRIEND INTENDS TO RISE ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING
MATCH PUZZLES
EXPERIMENT WITH TEN MATCHES
THE MAGIC NINE
TRIANGLES WITH MATCHES
MATCH SQUARES
YOUR OPPONENT MUST TAKE THE LAST MATCH
A SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTATION
NUMERAL
SIX AND FIVE MAKE NINE
THE ARTFUL SCHOOLBOYS
WHAT ARE MATCHES MADE OF?
A SHEEP PEN
POST AND RAIL PUZZLE
SIMPLE MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
A GOOD AFTER-DINNER TRICK
TO REMOVE A SERVIETTE RING FROM A TAPE HELD ON THE THUMBS OF ANOTHER PERSON
AN EXPERIMENT IN GRAVITY
A SCISSORS FEAT
ANOTHER TRICK WITH A PAIR OF SCISSORS
TO CUT AN APPLE IN TWO WITH YOUR FINGER
A TRICK WITH DOMINOES
AN ESCAPE
CIGARETTE PAPERS AND SERVIETTES
FOUR CIGARETTE PAPERS
A HINDOO SWINDLE
THE ELUSIVE MATCH—A CAPITAL IMPROMPTU TRICK
