Fig. 12.
If required for production, you proceed as follows: Having placed a silk handkerchief in the concealed drawer, introduce the cabinet, take out the empty drawer, and give it for examination. Replace the drawer, secretly turn over the cabinet, and place it on your table. You now go through any form of incantation you please, open the drawer, and take out the handkerchief.
If you desire to vanish the handkerchief, you will have it placed in the drawer by one of the spectators, and while going to the table turn over the box. When the drawer is opened the handkerchief will have disappeared.
Should you wish to change one handkerchief for another, you will, beforehand, conceal, say, a red handkerchief in the cabinet; then, taking a white one, have it deposited in the upper drawer, turn over the cabinet as before, pull out the now uppermost drawer, and produce the red handkerchief.
From the foregoing description it will be obvious that the cabinet is capable of being used in conjunction with many tricks.
Transcriber’s Notes:
A number of typographical errors have been corrected silently.
Irregularities in closing quotes have not been modernized.