basket-trick

Updated: May 11, 2025

It is the magic-lantern of creation; it is the key to all mysticism, to the three-card trick, and to the basket-trick; it sheds a glory upon thimble-rigging, a halo upon legerdemain; it even radiates vagabond beams of splendour upon pocket-picking and the cognate arts.

George Robert Aberigh-Mackay - Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series