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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 306 | ROBERT-HOUDIN'S IGNORANCE OF MAGIC In my collection is the handbill of a stonc-swallower who exhibited at No. IO Cockspur Street, London, charg- ing an admission fee of half-a-crown. These performers actually swallowed the water, stones, Indian fakir seated in the basket after the subject has been "vanished." pebbles, etc., and retched them up again so cleverly and at such carefully selected instants that the audience did not know that the disgorging had been accomplished. Swallowing glass was a different matter, and the mod- [ 277 ] |