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is an operation whereby one may seem to work wonderful, impossible, and incredible things, by agility, nimbleness, and sleight of hand.

He must be one of a bold and undaunted resolution, so as to set a good face upon the matter.

2.He must have strange terms, and emphatical words, to grace and adorn his actions; and the more to amaze and astonish the beholders,

3.And lastly, He must use such gestures of body, as may take off the spectators' eyes from a strict and diligent beholding his manner of performance.

One of the company draws a chance card, and you ask for three watches from the spectators, which you fold up in separate pieces of paper in the form of dice boxes, which are laid on the table, and covered with a napkin—the card chosen is burnt, and the cinders put into a box—shortly after the box is opened, the ashes are not there.