Modern magic : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. . is rather difficult to explain in writing, but will becomequite clear upon an examination of Figs. 172 and 173, both repre-senting a section of the hinder end of the drawer-box, the one in itsupright and the one in its turned-over position. The necessaryturning over of the box is plausibly accounted for by the performers desire that the audience shall,for greater fairness, have a fullview of the top of the appa-ratus. There is an ingenious ad-dition sometimes found indrawer-boxes of French make,whereby b may be at pleasurebolted to
Modern magic : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. . is rather difficult to explain in writing, but will becomequite clear upon an examination of Figs. 172 and 173, both repre-senting a section of the hinder end of the drawer-box, the one in itsupright and the one in its turned-over position. The necessaryturning over of the box is plausibly accounted for by the performers desire that the audience shall,for greater fairness, have a fullview of the top of the appa-ratus. There is an ingenious ad-dition sometimes found indrawer-boxes of French make,whereby b may be at pleasurebolted to a, and the two maythus be handed for examina-tion, with little chance of theirsecret being detected. Thebolting, and unbolting is effected by a slight movement up or down ofthe knob in front, thereby raising or depressing a kind of hook ofbent tin, working in the thickness of the front of a. Fig. 174 showsthis hook in its raised or unhooked, and Fig. 175 in its depressed orhooked condition. The drawer-box, as above described, is available to produce or dis-. FlG. 174.
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