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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 286 | THE DISAPPEARING HANDKERCHIEF shoulder of mutton, which, on being cut, would yield up a card previously drawn by some spectator. He thus de- scribes his trick in his book "Whole Art of Legerde- main," published in London in 1815: "TRICK FOUR. "To cut out of a Shoulder of Mutton a Card which one Only known portrait of the clever English conjurer, Buck. From an engraving in the Harry Houdini Collection. of the Company had previously drawn out of the Pack. " Having desired a person to draw a Card out of several which you hold to him, and to remember it, which he promises to do, you tell him it shall be in a shoulder of mutton which you will send for. " "Accordingly you desire a servant to go to the butch- er's and bring one. When brought, it is examined, 17 [ 257] |