The Magician's Own Book, or, the Whole Art of Conjuring / Being a complete hand-book of parlor magic, and containing over one thousand optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, together with all the most noted tricks of modern performers.

by George Arnold; Frank Cahill

The four figures are 8888, which being divided by a line drawn through the middle, become ⁰⁰⁰⁰/₀₀₀₀, the sum of which is eight 0s, or nothing.

40. GRAMMATICAL PUZZLE.

Take away L in the subjunctive "Let" at the beginning of the first line, and substitute S, and so turn it into the imperative "Set," when the changes which necessarily follow will be immediately apparent.

41. ANSWER TO THE TREE PUZZLE.

42. ANSWER TO AN EPITAPH ON ELLINOR BACHELLOR, AN OLD PIE WOMAN.

Beneath in the dust

The mouldy old crust

Of Nell Bachellor lately was shoven: