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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 39 | THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. 29 CHAPTER IV.I PRACTICE. IN conjuring, as in all other arts and sciences, perseverance is requisite in order to become expert and successful. There is no royal road, or possibility of acquiring the end, without ex- ercising the means to that end. Let my young friends, then, carefully practise over and over again the passes and the tricks which I have already explained to them. It is the only way to attain dexterity and confidence, without which they will never be able to make any creditable exhibition of the art of conjur- ing. After they have attained considerable skill and sleight-of- hand in displaying a few tricks, they will easily extend the range of their performances, and gradually rise to greater ability. I may, therefore, parody an old injunction for obtaining success, and say There are three rules for its attainment: The firstis "Practice." The second is Practice." The third is "Prac- tice." In a word, constant and careful practice is requisite, if any wish to be successful as amateur conjurors. They should never attempt to exhibit before their friends any tricks that they have not so frequently practised that no bungling or hitch is likely to occur in their performance of it. Let no one be staggered by the simplicity of the processes recommended in these tricks. The result will in fact be all the more astonishing, the simpler the operations employed. The great point is the address of the performer, and that will carry through successfully the means employed. However sim- ple and insignificant those means may appear to the learner when they have been explained to him, if there is good address |