William E. Chenery.
Framingham, Mass.,
May, 1912.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| The Magnetic Ring | [1] |
| To Tell the Hour | [2] |
| The Spirit Calculator | [3] |
| The Square of Sixteen Numbers | [5] |
| The Square of Nine Digits | [5] |
| Making a Bird Enter a Cage | [6] |
| The Handkerchief Snake | [6] |
| To Pass Your Body Through a Postal Card | [7] |
| Silhouettes | [8] |
| Gymnastics for the Tongue | [9] |
| The Passenger to Boulogne | [9] |
| Mind-reading | [10] |
| Blowing a Card on Twine | [12] |
| Naming a Card | [12] |
| A Horse Race | [14] |
| A Jam-eating Contest | [15] |
| A Potato Race | [15] |
| Guessing Contests | [16] |
| A Phonograph Concert | [17] |
| To Lift Fifteen Matches with One | [18] |
| A Donkey Party | [19] |
| The Dwarf Exhibit | [19] |
| Stick-and-Pea Amusement | [22] |
| An Introduction to the Doll Family | [22] |
| Second Sight | [24] |
| The Blind Feeding the Blind | [25] |
| An Amateur Vaudeville | [25] |
| The Elusive Coin | [25] |
| Novel Paper-cutting | [26] |
| The Mysterious Remainder | [27] |
| Home Field-Sports | [29] |
| (a) One-yard Dash | [29] |
| (b) Tug of War | [29] |
| (c) Standing High Jump | [29] |
| (d) Hurdle Race | [29] |
| (e) Drinking Race | [30] |
| (f) Bun Race | [30] |
| (g) Cracker-eating Contest | [30] |
| (h) Rainy-Day Race | [30] |
| The Gentlemen Nurse-Maids | [31] |
| New Year’s Resolutions for Others | [32] |
| Can You Draw a Watch-face? | [33] |
| The Endless Thread | [34] |
| The Telltale Glass | [35] |
| Pairing Ten Half-dimes | [37] |
| Deceptive Heights | [37] |
| (a) Of a Hat | [37] |
| (b) Of a Barrel | [37] |
| Slang | [38] |
| Observation Contest | [39] |
| The Bargain-counter Game | [39] |
| The “Thirty-five” Trick | [41] |
| An Ink Shock | [42] |
| Reading from Folded Papers | [42] |
| Blind Man’s Buff with Dominoes | [43] |
| “My Aunt Has Arrived from Paris” | [44] |
| Surprising Strength | [45] |
| Card-passing Contest | [46] |
| A Cobweb Tangle | [47] |
| A Novel Masquerade | [47] |
| Hit the Bag | [48] |
| A Pretended Illusion | [49] |
| Dancing Fairies | [49] |
| Describing a Lady’s Costume | [50] |
| The Wonderful Hat | [51] |
| Mirror-Drawing | [51] |
| The Dancing Skeleton | [53] |
| Pitching Cards at a Hat | [54] |
| Peanut Guessing | [54] |
| Peanut Shelling | [54] |
| Peanut Rolling | [55] |
| The Peanut Hunt | [55] |
| Progressive Peanut Party | [55] |
| Your Friends in Black | [57] |
| GAMES | |
| Packing the Trunk | [59] |
| Blowing Ping-pong Balls | [60] |
| Doing the Impossible | [60] |
| The Game of “It” | [61] |
| The Game of “Turtle” | [63] |
| The Game of “Empty Hands” | [64] |
| Simon Says | [65] |
| Passing Bean-bags | [66] |
| Buzz | [67] |
| Can You Laugh? | [68] |
| An Optical Game | [68] |
| Blowing the Feather | [69] |
| Throwing the Handkerchief | [70] |
| Going to Jerusalem | [71] |
| Find the Whistle | [71] |
| The All-around Story Game | [72] |
| An Obstacle Game | [72] |
| Impudence | [73] |
| Rolling Chase-ball | [74] |
| TRICKS | |
| The Sharpers Outwitted | [76] |
| The Raised Hand | [78] |
| Unconscious Movements | [78] |
| The Broken Match Restored | [79] |
| The Cent and the Hole | [80] |
| Mysterious Reading | [81] |
| The Baffling Card | [83] |
| A Watch Trick | [83] |
| Silk from Paper | [84] |
| The Obedient Ball | [86] |
| Tricks with a Pen | [87] |
| The Dice and Cup | [88] |
| The Surprising Paper Bands | [89] |
| Napkin-ring Trick | [89] |
| The Magical Cups of Tin | [90] |
| The Elusive Cork | [92] |
| The Three Pennies | [92] |
| A Lesson in Gravity | [93] |
| The Tantalizing Half-dollar | [93] |
| Drawing Matches to Win | [94] |
| Eye-errors and Ghosts | [96] |
| The Detaining Hand-clasp | [98] |
| The Pictorial Nail | [99] |
| Cane Trick | [99] |
| PANTOMIMES | |
| General Directions | [101] |
| Aerial Figures | [103] |
| Silhouettes | [105] |
| Shadow Pictures | [106] |
| Shadow Show | [106] |
| CARD TRICKS | |
| Calling the Cards | [110] |
| The Odd Card | [114] |
| Naming the Cards | [116] |
| A Diamond Ace of Hearts | [117] |
| A Three-card Trick | [118] |
| Detection by Smell | [119] |
| Naming a Drawn Card | [121] |
| Grouping the Kings | [123] |
| Detecting a Turned Card | [124] |
| Telling the Number of Transposed Cards | [124] |
| The Three Packets | [127] |
| A Card Found at the Second Guess | [127] |
| Pocketing a Chosen Card | [128] |
| To Pick Out a Card Thought Of | [131] |
| The Siamese Aces | [133] |
| Detection of a Drawn Card by Color | [136] |
| Mathematical Detection of Card | [137] |
| Passing a Card to Top of Pack | [138] |
| The Trick of “Thirty-one” | [140] |
| SOAP-BUBBLES | |
| Blowing Soap-bubbles | [142] |
| Fantastic Soap-bubbles | [143] |
| Rebounding Bubbles | [145] |
| FORFEITS | [146] |
| HALLOWE’EN | |
| Decorations | [149] |
| Invitations | [150] |
| Receiving Guests | [150] |
| The Heads of Bluebeard’s Wives | [152] |
| The Severed Head | [153] |
| Ghost Stories | [154] |
| The Unearthly Look | [154] |
| Luminous Writing | [155] |
| The Floating Candle | [155] |
| Ornamented Apples | [156] |
| Finding the Candle | [156] |
| The Full Moon | [156] |
| Cabinet Manifestations | [157] |
| Spirit Pictures | [157] |
| Parlor Magic | [159] |
| The Demon Bell | [161] |
| The Animated Skull | [161] |
| The Perilous Ring | [162] |
| Nose and Goggle Party | [162] |
| Jack-o’-lanterns | [163] |
| The Surprising Candle | [163] |
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