Water Wizardry

About this eBook

Author

Ainslie, Arthur, 1871?-1940

Title

Water Wizardry: A collection of tricks in which water is the chief agent

Credits

Produced by David T. Jones, Ross Cooling, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at www.pgdpcanada.net. (Book provided by the Whitchurch-Stouffville Library, as part of the Art Latcham Memorial collection on Magic)

Language

English

LoC Class

GV: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure

Subject

Magic tricks

Category

Text

eBook-No.

36513

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36513

Release Date

June 24, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.WATER WIZARDRY — WATER WIZARDRY — A COLLECTION OF TRICKS IN WHICH WATER IS THE CHIEF AGENT — BY — ARTHUR AINSLIE — ILLUSTRATED BY 20 DIAGRAMS — London
3. 3.C. Arthur Pearson, Limited — Henrietta Street, W.C. — 1922
4. 4.CONTENTS — WATER WIZARDRY
5. 5.CHAPTER I
6. 6.LITTLE TRICKS — The Impossible — Fig. 1 — " An Old One " — A Quaint Mixture — The Shower Bath — Fig. 2 — A Steady Hand — In the Soup — On the Edge — Fig. 3
7. 7.CHAPTER II
8. 8.LITTLE TRICKS—( continued ) — Topsy Turvy — A Sporting Offer — A Feat of Dexterity — More Than Full — The Obedient Corks — A Peculiar Egg — The Suspended Mug — The Sticky Glass — Fig. 4 — Feat of Dexterity — Fig. 5 — The Floating Pin — Washing a Card — Fig. 6
9. 9.CHAPTER III
10. 10.THE HYDROSTATIC TUBE
11. 11.CHAPTER IV
12. 12.THE PASSE-PASSE TRICK — Fig. 7
13. 13.CHAPTER V
14. 14.THE RICE BOWLS — Fig. 8 — Fig. 9 — Fig. 10
15. 15.CHAPTER VI
16. 16.THE INDIAN SANDS — Fig. 11
17. 17.CHAPTER VII
18. 18.THE DISSOLVED CARD — Fig. 12
19. 19.CHAPTER VIII
20. 20.MISCELLANEOUS WATER TRICKS — The Vanishing Glass of Water — Fig. 13 — The Vanishing Water — Fig. 14 — The Aquarius Tube — Fig. 15 — Links — Fig. 16 — The Milk Cans — Fig. 17 — Water from Waste Paper — Cotton Wool to Water — Fig. 18 — Fig. 19 — Silk from Water — Fig. 20

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