. My husband . u MY HUSBAND family as an electrical engineer, though I neversaw him show any knowledge of electricity inlater years, and he certainly never offered towire our house with bells. Nor did he ever haveany suggestions for repairing them when theywere out of order. In London Vernon somehow discovered Hall, where there is a bill made up ofsleight-of-hand performers. Most persons findone conjurer on a vaudeville bill sufficient, and Iwill confess that it is too much for me, but Vernonrevelled in the bill at St. Georges. He hunground till he learned to do many of the simplert
. My husband . u MY HUSBAND family as an electrical engineer, though I neversaw him show any knowledge of electricity inlater years, and he certainly never offered towire our house with bells. Nor did he ever haveany suggestions for repairing them when theywere out of order. In London Vernon somehow discovered Hall, where there is a bill made up ofsleight-of-hand performers. Most persons findone conjurer on a vaudeville bill sufficient, and Iwill confess that it is too much for me, but Vernonrevelled in the bill at St. Georges. He hunground till he learned to do many of the simplertricks and until he solved some that were sup-posed to possess a dash of the mysterious. Of-ten as a fancied onlooker from the audience hewas able to go on the stage and confound theconjurer. Before he was twenty he took up con-juring as a business, and appeared at clubs orother private entertainments. In a scrap-bookwhich Vernon kept in the years before I knewhim — later all business details, even the trivial
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