Modern magic : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. . Fig. the inner drawer, consisting of a little wire bolt lying loosely in acylindrical cavity in the hinder end of b, corresponding with a similarcavity in the side of the outer case. As long as the drawer-box iskept in its normal position, this pin offers no obstacle to the with-drawal of b with a; but if the box be turned over on the side inwhich is the bolt, theiatter drops partially intothe hole in the outercase, thus bolting b toit, until, by again turn-ing over the apparatus,the bolt is made to dropback again into its or
Modern magic : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. . Fig. the inner drawer, consisting of a little wire bolt lying loosely in acylindrical cavity in the hinder end of b, corresponding with a similarcavity in the side of the outer case. As long as the drawer-box iskept in its normal position, this pin offers no obstacle to the with-drawal of b with a; but if the box be turned over on the side inwhich is the bolt, theiatter drops partially intothe hole in the outercase, thus bolting b toit, until, by again turn-ing over the apparatus,the bolt is made to dropback again into its ori-ginal position. The ar-rangement 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 inge
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