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THE WHOLE ART
OF
LEGERDEMAIN;
OR,
Hocus Pocus
IN PERFECTION.
LEGERDEMAIN is an operation whereby one may seem to work wonderful, impossible, and incredible things, by agility, nimbleness, and sleight of hand.
A Description of the Operator.
1. 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 of the spectators' eyes from a strict and ⟨diligent⟩ beholding his manner of performance.
To seem to eat Knives and Forks.
Desire any one of the spectators to lend you a knife, which when you get hold of, so that you
