After The Dessert by Martin Gardner

Description

You will find tricks with bills, cigarettes, coins, matches, silverware, napkins and salt shakers, all things which are readily available at any restaurant or dinner table.

This ebook was written for the performer, professional or amateur, who is seeking good, well-tested effects which do not require elaborate practice, preparation, or skill.

Martin has chosen only tricks which make use of objects found at any dinner table. All are performed while seated, with spectators on both right and left. A few of the effects are original, but most of them have been picked up from friends who picked them up from friends, so it was impossible to trace them to their origin.

Since After the Dessert was such a success, Martin wrote a second booklet with similar impromptu tricks for the table: Over the Coffee Cups.

BILLSThe Curious FoldNaming the Date on a Borrowed BillFour Piles and a Dollar Bill

CIGARETTES

The Unreversed WordThe Magic InhaleBiting the Cigarette

COINS

Coin Through the PlateVanishing CoinTesting the Half Dollar

MATCHES

Lighting a Match twiceColor Changing HeadsFolder MathematicsShooting the MatchMatch Folder WagerThe Nazi Cross

MISCELLANEOUS

Tapping Table ObjectsJapanese Paper BirdVanishing Coffee SteamTravelling Fountain Pen

SILVERWARE

Table Knife Through BodyBreaking the SpoonBending the SpoonSwallowing the KnifeMusical KnifeSpoon to KnifeVanishing Spoon

NAPKIN

Character Reading from the TeethImprovised BrassiereThe Invisible Hair

SALT SHAKER

Vanishing Salt Shaker1st edition 1941; 22 pages
word count: 6669 which is equivalent to 26 standard pages of text