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apparatus appear Arabs assistant attached audience Blois borrowed bowl cartridges Ching Ling Foo clever coin colored concealed cone conjurer conjurer's cord cover curtain decanter duplicate edge effect egg cup empty envelope exhibited fake false bottom fastened feats fingers fish follows French front ghost glass handker handkerchief Harry Houdini HARRY KELLAR Herrmann hold hole hook Houdin illusion inches inside invented kerchief La Trappe Abbey lady left hand legerdemain lifted lower magic magician Marabout Martinka ment metal mirror pack palm paper passed performer piece placed plate pocket prestidigitator produced pull Reichshoffen ribbons right hand ring Robert Heller Robert-Houdin rose-bush salver screen secret seen shell shown side silk sleeve sleight-of-hand spectators stage stand sunshade Svengali theatre thread thumb tion Torrini Trewey trick tube turn vanished wand watch watchmaker wire