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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 150 | 134 LATEST MAGIC getting a bit thin on the top, and it worried him. One day, thinking over the mysterious letters, an idea struck him. 'H R'! he explaimed, 'H R! why "Hair Restorer" of course, not a doubt of it! I'll try it this very night.' He did. He rubbed it in, and went to sleep quite happy, but when he tried to brush his hair in the morning there wasn't any left to brush. The Alkahest had taken it all off, and left him as bald as a baby. "He went to bed again, and ordered a wig, but before it could be sent home he caught such a cold in his head that he died. Just-sneezed-him- self-away." (The last words to be spoken slowly and sadly.) "I notice that some of you ladies are weeping. It is an affecting story, no doubt, and I used to shed a tear over it myself. But after all, you didn't know my Uncle James. Neither did I, for the matter of that, and if we had known him we might not have liked him. So we won't stop to grieve about him.ยน "One of the most striking experiments with the Alkahest is the dissolving of a paving stone, par- ticularly if you lay a bunch of violets on it and dissolve them both together, when you get a scut- tleful of best Violet Powder. Unfortunately I haven't a paving stone handy, and I don't suppose any gentleman present is likely to have one about 1 If it is desired to shorten the patter the "Uncle James" episode may be omitted without serious detriment to the trick. |