Rensselaer, Alexander Van: Try This One! ©1941 D. Appleton-Century Co., NY & London Hardcover, 205 pages

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Contents:

ix By Way of Introduction

3 I. Stunts with Bottles and Corks
3 1. The Roaming Corks
7 2. Removing a Bill from under a Bottle
8 3. Balancing a Cork-Topped Needle
11 4. The Slippery Corks
12 5. The Expanding Nipple

15 II. Stunts with Rope and String
15 6. An Old Rope Trick
18 7. Follow the Green (or Red) Line
20 8. Chewing Together Two Pieces of String
25 9. You Can't Tie This One

31 III. Stunts with Paper and Cards
31 10. Putting a Card Through a Table-Top
33 11. One Halved Equals One
34 12. One-Sided Paper
35 13. The Self-Rising Card
36 14. Streamer Cutting
37 15. Finding a Moved Card
39 16. The Expanding Hole
40 17. Rolling It Over
42 18. Guessing the Size of the Cuts
45 19. Loading Paper Barges

51 IV. Stunts with Matches
51 20. Betting on the Fall of a Match
52 31. The Childlike Matches
53 22. The Last Match
55 23. Restoring a Broken Match
57 24. Removing a Match from a Folded Handkerchief

61 V. Stunts with Coins
61 25. The Vanishing Coin
63 26. Five Touching Coins
65 27. Spooning a Dime
67 28. The Jumping Penny
69 29. The Balancing Quarter
70 30. The Adhering Dime
71 31. A Puzzling Coin Stunt
73 32. Lifting Four Straws and a Quarter with One Straw
74 33. The Multiplying Coins
75 34. Catch the Penny
77 35. The Magic Cross

81 VI. Stunts with Glasses
81 36. Bottoms-Up
83 37. Balancing a Glass on an Indian's Nose
84 38. Doubling a Quarter
85 39. Picking Up a Cube of Ice without Touching It
86 40. Cardinal Puff
90 41. Picking Two Coins Off a Glass
93 42. Exchanging Wine for Water

97 VII. Stunts with Figures
97 43. Foretelling the Answer
99 44. The Wrong Number
101 45. Restoring the Deleted Digit
103 46. Remembering Fifty Numbers
106 47. True or False?

111 VIII. Balancing Stunts
111 48. Kick the Match Box Over
112 49. Balancing a Grapefruit
113 50. Pick Up Sticks
115 51. A Balancing Test
117 52. The Dizzy Stunt
119 53. The Spoon-Raising Stunt

123 IX. Dinner-Table Stunts
123 54. Touching Your Fingers
124 55. Magnetic Fingers
126 56. Table Tapping
128 57. Burning Sugar
130 58. The Asbestos Thumb
132 59. The Numbered Sugar
135 60. The Rising Egg
136 61. The Spinning Egg

139 X. Miscellaneous Stunts
139 62. Encircling Yourself with a Broom
143 63. The Jitterbug’s Knees
145 64. The Telltale Ashes
149 65. The Hypnotic Touch
150 66. The Human Log
152 67. Bailing Out
154 68. A Necking Stunt
156 69. Remote Control
158 70. Siamese Running
159 71. Siamese Sit Down
160 72. Needle Darts
161 73. The Broken Arm
163 74. The Shifting Pencil
165 75. Lifting One Person with Five Fingers
167 76. Floating a Needle
168 77. Candle Lighting
169 78. Finding Cinderella’s Slippers
171 79. The Leaping Elastic Band
172 80. Touching Your Nose
173 81. A Doggie Stunt
175 82. Feather Fun
177 83. Hands Up!
178 84. Be Different
180 85. Blind Pig
181 86. The Square in the Looking-Glass
182 87. The --- --- Banner

187 XI. Practical Jokes
187 88. To Be Right Is Wrong
188 89. How to Put Yourself Through a Curtain Ring
189 90. To Be Wrong Is Right
191 91. Putting a Penny under a Nickel
192 92. The Collapsible Egg
194 93. An Embarrassing Circle
196 94. Crossed or Uncrossed
198 95. How Not to Eat Ice Cream
199 96. You Can’t Say No
200 97. The Imprisoning Handclasp
201 98. An Impossible Jump
202 99. To Make Useless Another’s Leg
203 100. Naming the Last Card Turned
204 101. You Can’t Jump the Height of Your Knees
205 102. Pushing a Half-Dollar Through a Finger Ring