CONTENTS

FOREWORD

CIGAR AND CIGARETTE MANIPULATION

• Cigar Manipulation
• Swallowing a Cigar
• Pouring a Smoke
• Just a Cigarette Paper
• Cigarette Paper, Torn and Restored
• A Cigarette Routine
• Routine with the Diestel Cigarette Dropper
• Vanishing of Cigarettes from a Glass
• Cigarette Rising from a Packet
• Magnetized Cigarettes

MISCELLANEOUS

• The Bill in the Envelope
• Ashes
• Ashes--Second Method
• Thimble and Trumpet
• Impromptu Newspaper Tearing

COINS

• The Flying Coins
• Vanish of Coin from Trouser Fold

CARDS

• Do as I do--You Can't
• Magician vs. Gambler
• Touch
• Touch--variation
• G. W. Hunter's Twelve Card Transposition
• The Knock-Out Card Trick
• Maguire Card Force
• Pack of Cards Change to Foulard

SILKS

• Silks and Soup Plates
• The Knot in the Silk
• G. W. Hunter's Silk Routine

BILLIARD BALLS

• Two Billiard Ball Moves
• Billiard Ball Change Over
• The Limit Multiplying Billiard Balls
• Passage of Four Balls from Hand to Hand
• Production of Four Balls Without Using a Shell
• An Egg Production Climax

SOME USEFUL GIMMICKS

• The Silk Gimmick
• A Card Holder
• Ball Shell with Tongue
• Vanish for a Ball
• New Card Index
• Torn and Restored Paper Strip Gimmick

IMPROMPTU TRICKSTER

• Impromptu Linking Rings
• A Cigarette Interlude
• A Cigar Vanish
• A Match Divination
• The Knee Thread
• Wand through Hat
• Somersaulting a Pack
• A Rising Card
• Egg Cups and Pellets
• Knife and Egg Shell
• A Surgical Operation
• Concussion of the Brain
• Shot in the Eye
• Cutting the Thumb

STAGE TRICKS AND ILLUSIONS

• Hugard's Floating Ball
• Hugard's Fire Eating
• Hindu Fire Eating
• The Whole Art of Smoke Pictures
• Ropes, Fan and Silks
• Cords, Fan and Silks
• XXth Century Spirit Seance
• Production of Real Cannon Balls
• Walking through a String of Beads
• Hugard's Bullet Catching