“ The egg is fastened to a thread by a pin, which is put in lengthways, and the hole, which has been made to introduce the pin, is stopped with white wax. The other end of the thread is fastened to the breast of the person who performs the trick, with a pin bent like a hook—the cane passing under the thread near to the egg serves for it to rest on—when the music begins, the performer pushes the cane from left to right, or from right to left ”

“ A person with a hard hand and stiff joints should never think of playing deception with the cards, as clumsy fingers will not do. In showing tricks with cords, the principal point consists in shuffling them nimbly, and yet keeping one certain card either at the bottom or in some known place of the pack, four or five cards from the bottom ”

“ In the other end of the table, where the like hole is made, another boy of the bigness of the known boy must be placed, having on his usual apparel: he must lean or lie upon the board, and must put his head under the board, through the side hole, so as the body shall seem to lie on the end of the board, and his head lie in a plate on the other end. ”

“ Cover the metal case of a watch with part of a handkerchief, single only; brings the ends to that side where the glass is, and hold the handkerchief by them there, so as to stretch it tightly over the metal. You may then place a red hot coal, or a piece of lighted paper, upon that part of the handkerchief whieh is so strained over the metal without burning it; the ealoric merely passing through the handkerchief to fix in the metal.
Knotted thread. ”

“ The Golden Head, which, leaping and dancing in a Glass, answers different Questions. To show that this head is not connected with any other object, you put some crown pieces at the bottom of a glass, and a covering over all, this however does not prevent the head, which you affirm to be of solid gold, from dancing in the glass to answer by numbers, and yes or no, to questions proposed to it ”

“ Make one plain loose knot with the two corner ends of a handkerchief, and seeming to draw the same very hard, hold fast the body of the said handkerchief near to the knot with your right hand, pulling the contrary end with your left hand, which is the corner of that tvhich you hold ”

“ Some amusement may be obtained among young people, by writing with common ink, a variety of questions, on different bits of paper, and adding a pertinent reply to each, written with nitro-muriat of gold. ”

“ Conceal a piece of lace in your hand; then produce another piece of the same pattern; double the latter, and put the fold between your fore-finger and thumb, with the piece which you have concealed, doubled in the same manner ”

“ This feat is one of the greatest that the jugglers have done, and is inferior to none. To do this, you must go to some tinman, or any body that knows how to make your holes room enough for a die to go in and out, and then let them clap a good halfpenny upon them all, and so make them fast, and nobody can tell them from true ones; then you must get a cap to cover your half-pence, a cap and a die for the company to sling to amuse them; when you are thus provided with half-pence, a cap, and a die, the manner of pcrformance is thus ”

“ When produced, the answers will be invisiblc; you desire different persons to select such questions as they may fancy, and take them home with them; you then promise, that if they are placed near the fire during the night, answers will appear beneath the questions in the morning ”