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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 171 | THE UNMASKING OF ROBERT-HOUDIN Young's name has been handed down in history be- cause he made money on Anderson's reputation, by the boldest of limitations, assuming the title of Wizard of the North with his own name in small type. One of his bills is also reproduced. SHAKSPEARE ROOMS, Barnedo or "Bar- NEW-STREET, BIRMINGHAM. ney" Eagle is the man of the trio of the imi- tators who deserves more than passing no- tice. He became An- derson's bitterest ene- my, and their rivalry made money for the printers. BEHOLD THE GREAT BERNADO'S SYSTEL OF IMPOSITION Eagle could neither Which he nightly practices on the inhabitants of Birmingham, holding his System of Humbug up by copying the Bills and read nor write, but hav- Advertisements, of J. H. ANDERSON, the Inventor of Ambidexterous Prestidigitation, with all the list of the Great Wizard of the North's peculiar technical phrases, ing a quick brain he which BERNADO exhibits in his Bills, (as original) yet can neither pronounce nor understand the meaning of hired a clever writer to the terms by which he gulls the public. Mr. ANDERSON will bet BERNADO any sum, from a Shilling to 220, that he cannot read the Advertisement in the Birmingham indite his speeches and Advertiser," of Thursday, 18th November. Mr. A. will take a further bet, that the Advertisement alluded to, was copied from his,((Mr. A's) Bill, circulated in Manchester, duplicated Anderson's on Monday, November 15th. BARNEY, when we last met, 1 merely ruffed your show so closely that An- feathers, this time l'u pluch you clean, not one shall be len thee to spread thy (Eagle) wings of imposition. derson'spride was hurt. Should BARNEY accept this challenge, the memey will be spent at CHARLEY CHESHIRE'S. He therefore decided An Anderson poster, exposing "Barney" to expose Eagle, and Eagle's tricks. Only bill of this sort in exist- ence. From the Harry Houdini Collection. thousands of bills, con- stituting a virulent attack upon his imitator, were distributed. One of these is reproduced. It is so rare that I doubt whether another is in existence. As Eagle had advertised that he was patronized by [ 55] |