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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Introduction
  • BILLS:
    • The Curious Fold
    • Naming the Date on a Borrowed Bill
    • Four Piles and a Dollar Bill
  • CIGARETTES:
    • The Unreversed Word
    • The Magic Inhale
    • Biting the Cigarette
  • COINS:
    • Coin Through the Plate
    • Vanishing Coin
    • Testing the Half Dollar
  • MATCHES:
    • Lighting a Match Twice
    • Color changing Heads
    • Folder Mathematics
    • Shooting the Match
    • Match Folder Wager
    • The Nazi Cross
  • MISCELLANEOUS:
    • Tapping Table Objects
    • Japanese Paper Bird
    • Vanishing Coffee Steam
    • Travelling Fountain Pen
  • SILVERWARE:
    • Table Knife Through the Body
    • Breaking the Spoon
    • Bending the Spoon
    • Swallowing the Knife
    • Musical Knife
    • Spoon to Knife
    • Vanishing Spoon
  • NAPKIN:
    • Character Reading from the Teeth
    • Improvised Brassiere
    • the Invisible Hair
  • SALT SHAKER:
    • Vanishing Salt Shaker

Title: After the Dessert
Author: Martin Gardner
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1941
Publisher: Max Holden, NY
Language: English
Page Count: 21
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 8 1/2" x 5"
ISBN: None

SUMMARY- There are a good variety of relatively easy tricks here for the amateur entertainer. The chief bill trick is to fold it three times, unfold it, and have it be upside down. He mentions the Japanese Paper Bird, and for folding instructions refers you to page 117 of Harry Houdini's "Paper Magic"(()and also cites Tissandier's "Scientific Recreations"(1881)). He then gives some patter, and a few extra things you can do with the bird using a dime.