Rensselaer, Alexander Van: Betcha Can't Do It ©1940 D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc., NY & London Hardcover, w/dj, 168 pages

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Comments: "A hundred and two stunts and practical jokes"

Contents (From book, updated Feb 2020):

ix By Way of Introduction

3 I Stunts with Coins
3 1. Quarter off the Nose
4 2. Catching Coins from Back of Hand
5 3. Catching CoinsfromElbow
7 4. The Quarter Push
9 5. Penny Pick-UpI
11 6. Penny Pick-UpII

15 II Stunts with Brooms
15 7. Broom Lifting
17 8. Crawling under a Broom
18 9. The High Broom Jump
19 10. The Low Broom Jump
21 11. Do What I Do
23 12. Tumbling an Egg into a Tumbler
25 13. Outpost Duty
26 14. Balancing on a Broomstick

29 III Cord and Rope Stunts
29 15 Separating the Ties That Bind
31 16 Guessing Your Girth
33 17 Money in the Purse
35 18 Knotting a Rope
37 19 Turning a Vest Inside Out with Hands Tied
39 20 Tightrope Walking
40 2t Prisoners’ Release

45 IV Stunts with Paper
45 22 Rumpling a Newspaper
47 23 Balancing a Newspaper
48 24 Blind Man’s Duel
49 25 Paper Snuffing
50 26 A Mysterious Blow

53 V Stunts with Bottles and Corks
53 27 Get the Cork without Losing the Bottle
55 28 Cork Placing
56 29 Smoking on a Milk Bottle
57 30 Bottling Clothes-Pins
58 31 Knocking a Cork off a Knife
59 32 Bottling a Hard Boiled Egg
60 33 Reading on a'Milk Bottle
61 34 Snatch the Bill
62 35 Cork Pick-Up

65 VI Stunts with Chairs
65 36 Chair Lifting I
66 37 Chair Lifting II
67 38 Chair Shifting
68 39 Retrieving a Cracker
70 40 The Human Snake Stunt

73 VII Handkerchief Stunts
73 41 Handkerchief Pick-Up I
74 42 Handkerchief Pick-Up II
75 43 Tying a Knot in a Handkerchief
 
79 VIII Match Box and Match Stunts
79 44 Match Box on the Nose
81 45 Lifting Three Matches with One
83 46 Freeing the Penny
84 47 Match Pyramid Building
85 48 Match Striking
86 49 Lifting Ten Matches with One
88 50 Lighting a Safety Match on Your Shoe
89 51 The Leaping Match

93 IX Stunts with Cards
93 52 Card Throwing
95 53 Card Flipping
96 54 Blowing a Card Over
97 55 Putting Your Head Through a Calling Card
99 56 Spotting a Chosen Card
101 57 A Telepathy Stunt

105 X Miscellaneous Stunts
105 58 Crossing the Ice
107 59 Tin Pan Direction Finder
109 60 Back-Side-Down Crawling
110 61 Balloon Blowing
111 62 High Kicking
112 63 Removing Your Vest without Taking Off Your Coat
114 64 Life Class
115 65 Blind Feeding
116 66 Knock Off His Hat
117 67 Potato Golf
118 68 Obstacle Dancing
119 69 The Mysterious Thread
120 70 Tearing Up Telephone Books
122 71 What’s on a Watch?
124 72 How Tall Is Your Hat?
125 73 Finding a Birth Date
127 74 The Rising Match Box
128 75 Smoking on a Tin Can
129 76 Breaking a Pencil with a Dollar Bill
131 77 Eliminating One Checker from a Stack
133 78 Candy Race

137 XI Dinner-Table Stunts
137 79 The Careless Smoker
139 80 The Balancing Coin
140 81 Snuffing Out a Candle Behind a Bottle
141 82 Candle Relighting
142 83 The Jumping Dime
143 84 Blowing a Dime over a Tumbler
144 85 Removing a Dime from under a Glass
146 86 Cracker-Eating Whistler
147 87 Plate Flipping
149 88 The Tumbling Teaspoon
150 89 Balancing an Egg
151 90 The Leaping Egg
152 91 Something Never Seen Before
    
155 XII Practical Jokes
155 92 Blind Man’s Obstacle Race
157 93 The New Kiddie Kar
159 94 Standing on a Newspaper
160 95 Taking a Cigarette from Under a Hat
161 96 Water Balancing
162 97 Broom and Water Balancing
163 98 Calling the Turn
165 99 The Unbreakable Match Box
166 100 Folding a Piece of Paper
167 101 Putting Twelve Persons in Eleven Beds
168 102 Kiss the Book