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CG-NL.773.047
20 Aug 1773:13 (10/510)
London, June 5. This evening, the famous Mr. Wildman, will
let any person in company, cut off the head of a living
cock, or hen, or any other fowl, and he will immediately
join the head to the body again, in the presence of the
company, &c. the fowl shall be alive, and perfectly well as
before the operation. He tells the ladies and gentlemen's
thoughts, by several methods never attempted before. He
lets any person take a card and run a fork through it on the
table, in order to hold it fast but he will change it in one
moment without ever touching it. He lets the whole company
see two cards on the table, and any ladies or gentlemen,
covering the same with two pieces of money, he engages to
change both of the cards without ever touching them or the
money. He lets several ladies chuse cards, and shuffle them
into what part of the pack they please, and lay the cards on
the table themselves, and he will take all the cards from
the top of the pack with the point of his sword, without
ever touching them with his fingers. He lets any person
take a card and put it in what part of the pack they please,
and it instantly disappears, notwithstanding they have all
the cards in their own hand; but if any person chuse to
bring a few nuts in their pocket, and crack one of them, the
card will be found in the middle of the kernel; and fifty
other astonishing deceptions both with cards and money.
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