Conjuring Patter

Ready-to-use patter for popular tricks from P. T. Selbit, later famous as the inventor of Sawing Through a Woman. A short booklet on what to say while you perform.

What’s inside

1. Opening remarks — a ready-made opening speech
2. Patter for the Aerial Treasury act
3. The chosen orange and mystic ribbon trick
4. The egg and handkerchief trick
5. Bagged canaries and cage trick
6. Handkerchief manipulation act
7. How to construct patter
8. Gags for props — bits about bottles, gags on glasses, tube trifles, water witticisms
9. Patter for a card manipulation act — opens volume two
10. The never-empty glass of water
11. Selbit’s sugar and milk trick
12. Paper tearing
13. Chapeaugraphy
14. An introduction to a dumb show
15. Miscellaneous gags

P. T. Selbit, 1904 · Hamley Brothers. Complete 38-page PDF. Free to download: check out at $0 and the file arrives by email and on your order page.

This classic is in the public domain. Scans come from library copies, so expect the odd stain or stamp of an old book.