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Physical Amusements and Diverting Experiments: Composed and Performed in Different Capitals of Europe, and in LondonPinetti, Giuseppe

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Physical Amusements and Diverting Experiments: Composed and Performed in Different Capitals of Europe, and in London

Name: Physical Amusements and Diverting Experiments: Composed and Performed in Different Capitals of Europe, and in London
Author: Pinetti, Giuseppe

Pinetti, Giuseppe

Magic tricks

Begin by making him pull off his stock, and unbuttoning his shirt at
the neck and sleeves, afterwards tye a little string in the button-hole
of the left sleeve; then, passing your hand behind his back, pull the
shirt out of his breeches, and slip it over his head; then pulling it
out before in the same manner, you will leave it on his stomach; after
that, go to the right hand, and pull the sleeve down, so as to have it
all out of the arm: the shirt being then all of a heap, as well in the
right sleeve as before the stomach, you are to make use of the little
string fastened to the button-hole of the left sleeve, to get back the
sleeve that must have slipt up, and to pull the whole shirt out that
way.

To hide your way of operating from the person whom you unshirt, and
from the assembly, you may cover his head with a lady’s cloak, holding
a corner of it in your teeth.

In order to be more at your ease, you may mount on a chair, and do
the whole operation under the cloak. Such are the means I used when I
performed publicly this trick.




CONTENTS.


                                                            Page
  PREFACE                                                      5

  CHAP. I. Curious Method of restoring to Life, in two
    Minutes, a Fly that has been drowned even twenty-four
    hours                                                     11

  CHAP. II. To make a Colour that will appear or
    disappear by Means of the Air                             12

  CHAP. III. Method of drawing a deformed Figure, which
    will appear well proportioned from a certain Point of
    View                                                   ibid.

  CHAP. IV. To change the Colour of a Rose                    13

  CHAP. V. To render hideous the Faces of all the Company     14

  CHAP. VI. Method of Engraving in Relief on the Shell of
    a new-laid Egg                                         ibid.

  CHAP. VII. To shoot a Swallow flying, with a Gun loaded
    with Powder, as usual; and after, to find Means to
    bring it to life again                                    15

  CHAP. VIII. To make a Calve’s Head bellow as if alive,
    when dressed and served up                                16

  CHAP. IX. A puzzling Question to be proposed for
    Solution                                                  17

  CHAP. X. To dispose two little Figures, so that one
    shall light a Candle, and the other put it out            19

  CHAP. XI. A curious Secret to make a Card pass from one
    Hand into the other                                       20

  CHAP. XII. To change a Card which is in the Hand of a
    Person, recommending him to cover it well                 23

  CHAP. XIII. To guess a Card that has been thought of by
    any body, by writing before-hand on a Paper or Card a
    Number, which will certainly be that of the Card that
    has been thought of                                       25

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Physical Amusements and Diverting Experiments: Composed and Performed in Different Capitals of Europe, and in London

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