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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 11 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 42337 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 79 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 illustration 7 hand 5 trick 5 card 4 place 4 ball 3 water 3 performer 3 handkerchief 3 coin 2 table 2 right 2 pass 2 paper 2 number 2 left 2 glass 2 fire 2 end 2 Paris 2 London 2 Fig 2 England 1 wheel 1 vse 1 time 1 stick 1 small 1 shew 1 seeme 1 rocket 1 piece 1 person 1 palm 1 pack 1 man 1 indian 1 inch 1 hold 1 haue 1 hat 1 finger 1 fig 1 draw 1 conjurer 1 cause 1 case 1 burn 1 bowl 1 audience Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 2801 hand 1994 card 1749 trick 1054 handkerchief 968 performer 938 glass 885 time 871 water 849 end 846 piece 815 coin 790 paper 787 table 765 audience 735 finger 727 ball 638 one 619 side 592 pack 561 illustration 528 top 508 person 506 inch 464 hat 462 bottle 450 fire 432 case 429 number 424 method 421 bottom 408 way 401 box 387 part 385 place 365 tube 340 article 332 hole 329 effect 327 position 327 figure 326 egg 322 manner 317 bowl 313 ring 309 air 305 mouth 304 course 293 wand 293 conjurer 290 cover Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 2481 _ 377 Houdin 367 Robert 232 Fig 201 London 178 c. 146 Harry 145 Houdini 144 Collection 133 Mr. 105 | 96 Magic 93 Anderson 91 © 82 Pinetti 80 Paris 76 England 71 M. 65 . 64 F 61 Water 60 Memoirs 57 FIG 53 New 51 John 51 Card 49 King 49 Fire 47 Fawkes 46 St. 46 Henry 45 Cards 43 vol 42 York 42 Pinchbeck 42 Herrmann 42 CHAPTER 41 W. 41 Theatre 41 Chabert 40 Tricks 40 Bosco 39 downe 39 J. 39 Dr. 38 Street 38 H. 37 de 37 Professor 37 Phillippe Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 7104 it 3175 you 3101 he 1663 i 1295 them 982 they 782 him 227 me 223 we 175 himself 137 she 114 itself 90 one 69 themselves 67 yourself 65 us 49 her 34 myself 11 thee 10 herself 7 ourselves 5 yours 5 his 4 vp 4 mine 3 ''s 2 oneself 1 your 1 ye 1 theirs 1 rockets._--they 1 remark:--"i 1 perform.= 1 pea.--this 1 flash.--this 1 cut.--this 1 blade"--to 1 bg 1 ball.--this Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 18029 be 3678 have 1722 make 1668 take 1452 do 1220 place 962 hold 827 see 812 give 768 show 758 say 680 put 606 use 573 find 547 pass 488 bring 487 appear 430 turn 427 go 419 draw 409 let 404 produce 400 perform 370 know 369 come 354 contain 339 leave 339 follow 333 get 333 conceal 331 keep 320 cover 306 fall 306 cause 289 ask 285 remove 264 allow 263 tell 259 require 259 cut 255 fill 250 borrow 246 open 236 throw 236 call 233 describe 227 present 225 remain 218 stand 217 look Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014 not 1958 then 1205 other 1033 up 951 so 933 very 773 first 763 same 733 small 732 out 711 little 706 now 700 right 681 more 658 left 647 well 608 only 553 as 490 large 455 good 436 great 428 down 390 also 386 long 382 second 382 most 375 many 369 much 367 again 351 together 328 thus 327 about 306 once 300 away 278 such 262 off 261 just 258 back 255 always 246 few 245 still 235 empty 229 quite 228 over 222 too 214 on 213 never 212 in 209 possible 206 even Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 184 good 94 least 70 most 54 great 21 slight 21 early 14 simple 13 strong 13 small 11 high 11 Most 9 near 9 late 8 low 7 large 7 fine 7 clever 6 vest 5 safe 5 easy 5 bad 4 old 4 minute 4 midd 4 manif 4 full 4 clear 4 cheap 3 wide 3 topmost 3 quick 3 bright 2 young 2 weak 2 rich 2 rearmost 2 ready 2 pure 2 l 2 happy 2 fond 2 crude 2 common 2 close 2 bitter 1 wise 1 wild 1 vppermost 1 thin 1 sure Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 312 most 33 well 11 least 2 near 1 tricks:-- 1 hard 1 figures:-- Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www.pgdpcanada.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.pgdpcanada.net Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 hand take up 11 performer comes forward 9 handkerchief is then 8 hand is then 8 performer does not 7 cards are then 7 trick is not 7 trick is very 6 hand is now 6 paper is then 5 card is then 5 trick is thus 4 _ is _ 4 cards are now 4 hand does not 4 hands are now 4 trick is also 4 trick was first 3 ball is not 3 card has apparently 3 card is not 3 cards are not 3 coins are not 3 glass is not 3 hand is perfectly 3 handkerchief is now 3 handkerchiefs are then 3 performer comes on 3 performer is able 3 performer is careful 3 performer takes care 3 performer takes up 3 performer taking care 3 trick is now 3 water does not 2 audience are full 2 audience did not 2 audience do not 2 audience is invariably 2 balls are not 2 bottle is quite 2 card is carefully 2 card is now 2 card is visible 2 cards being previously 2 cards being thus 2 coin does not 2 coin is not 2 coin is now 2 coins are then Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 cards have no index 2 trick is not sufficiently 1 audience are not thoroughly 1 balls are not really 1 balls are not small 1 bottle has no interior 1 bottle is not more 1 cards is not quite 1 case has no duplicate 1 cases have no clay 1 coins are not so 1 end being no deeper 1 end is not absolutely 1 glass is not too 1 hand does not actually 1 hand is not quite 1 hand is not unlikely 1 hat has no hole 1 one is not musical 1 ones is not imperatively 1 performer did not carefully 1 performer does not too 1 performer has not even 1 performer is not able 1 performer is not well 1 person has no difficulty 1 person is not advisable 1 trick had no success 1 trick is no less 1 trick is not likely 1 trick is not so 1 trick is not spoilt 1 trick is not yet 1 water is not real 1 water is not so A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 36513 author = Ainslie, Arthur title = Water Wizardry: A collection of tricks in which water is the chief agent date = keywords = bowl; card; conjurer; glass; hand; illustration; trick; water summary = The trick is to drink the water, but in order to get the glass to your The trick is to pour the water into the empty glass and drink it, Pour some water into a glass and cover it with an opera hat. The performer pours water from the bottle into the glass; in fact, he The trick is, of course, to make the glass of water and the bottle Unknown to the audience the conjurer uses two bottles for this trick and In presenting this trick the conjurer begins by showing two small bowls right hand and pour some of the water into the faked bowl. If the conjurer uses a glass bowl he should have the water in a large The conjurer holds the card in his left hand with its face towards the takes the card in that hand and holds it over the jug of water, while id = 27353 author = Branson, L. H. (Lionel Hugh) title = Indian Conjuring date = keywords = Jadoo; Mahommed; illustration; indian; stick; trick; water summary = rope trick that I have ever seen performed Shah Mahommed performing the egg bag trick Facing page 52 A neat little trick that can be performed by anybody who takes the A surprising little trick was once shewn to me by a performer whose The only rope trick I have ever seen performed by an Indian conjuror, The only rope trick that I have ever seen performed in India.] [Illustration: Shah Mahommed performing the Egg bag trick.] I will now describe the mango trick as I have seen it performed many trick being performed, let them take a copy of this little book and This ends the trick, though on occasions the performer orders the lad explanations while the tricks are being performed. trick performed, though in no instance do they give the place or the other persons who saw the trick done at that time and place. id = 32368 author = De Caston, Herbert title = Peerless Prestidigitation Being a collection of entirely new ideas and effects in the fascinating art of modern magic date = keywords = card; handkerchief; performer; place summary = pack whilst held in the hand of the performer, who turns his head away the performer drops the cards face _upwards_ upon the table, and, to table and the five cards handed to the performer, he asks for one of cards rise from the pack whilst held in the performer''s hand, and when conjurer palms off all the selected cards and hands the pack out to be cause the egg to leave the handkerchief and appear in his hand, and the handkerchief, and performer then calls attention to the egg on the the spectator to place his hand on his (performer''s), he brings his performer--eventually placing it in the left hand (back to audience) open out handkerchief, and in centre in place of the egg he finds When you go to take egg, remove with left hand and place small _fêke_ containing white silk handkerchief in left hand. id = 32788 author = Hercat title = More Conjuring: Simple Tricks for Social Gatherings date = keywords = Fig; card; coin; hand; illustration; number summary = Throw the pack on the table and request some one to select a card. card." You push the pack forward in your left hand, allowing the bottom Place the palmed card face upward on the left hand top and taking the left hand away, which will leave the selected card When ready to present the trick, hand the pack to your friend and ask between twenty and forty cards, place the pack on the table, and hand add the palmed cards and hand the pile thus increased to person number fingers of the left hand, and palm the top card as before. and two middle fingers of the right hand raise the rest of the cards the first two fingers and thumb of right hand take the three other cards counted cards, and hand the pack to spectator, with the request that he same time jerk the coin in your left hand upwards into your right, and id = 42723 author = Houdini, Harry title = The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin date = keywords = Anderson; Bosco; Collection; Droz; England; Fawkes; Harry; Henry; Houdin; Jacquet; London; Memoirs; Paris; Phillippe; Pinchbeck; Pinetti; Robert; St.; Theatre; illustration; trick summary = Robert-Houdin''s explanation of tricks performed by other magicians and Robert-Houdin''s claims to the invention of automata and second-sight. [Illustration: Programme for the opening of Robert-Houdin''s theatre in [Illustration: Writing and drawing figure claimed by Robert-Houdin as the writing and drawing figure claimed by Robert-Houdin, he brought to The writing and drawing figure claimed by Robert-Houdin as his original Concerning this trick, which Robert-Houdin claims as his invention, he Robert-Houdin worked The Mystic Bell trick in connection with The Clock. England by the time Robert-Houdin appeared in London in 1848. "Inexhaustible Bottle Trick" was used by Anderson before Robert-Houdin invented this trick arose between Robert-Houdin and Henri Robin, who Robin presented all the tricks and automata that Robert-Houdin claimed Robert-Houdin presented the trick for the first time at his own While Robert-Houdin, in his "Memoirs," claims to have invented the trick Robert-Houdin appeared in London for the last time in 1853, but in 1865 id = 435 author = Houdini, Harry title = Miracle Mongers and Their Methods A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc. date = keywords = Chabert; Dr.; England; King; Ling; London; Mr.; New; Paris; Sir; Smith; Sothern; York; burn; fire; hand; man; time; water summary = iron.--To cook in a burning cage.--Chabert''s oven.--To eat coals of that a London appearance was arranged for the same year; and at Mr. Laston''s rooms, 23 New Bond Street, her performance attracted the most Chabert took 20 grains of phosphorus, swallowed oil heated to nearly heat, the fire-king challenged any man living to drink a spoonful of clever performers drew quite fashionable audiences for a long time, and No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a enable the fireman to take into his hand burning or red-hot bodies. The last act in this extraordinary performance is the swallowing of a I have seen one of these performers on the street, in London, swallow a water worked those houses; but his performance met with little The feats which I saw him perform, a few days ago, were the following: performances, for eight or ten years; men of ordinary strength found id = 12343 author = Rid, Samuel title = The Art of Iugling or Legerdemaine Wherein is Deciphered All the Conueyances of Legerdemaine and Iugling, How They Are Effected, and Wherin They Chiefly Consist; Cautions to Beware of Cheating at Cardes and Dice, the Detection of the Beggerly Art of Alcumistry, and the Foppery of Foolish Cousoning Charmes, All Tending to Mirth and Recreation, Especially for Those That Desire to Haue the Insight and Priuate Practise Thereof date = keywords = Cardes; Iugler; Legerdemaine; ball; hand; haue; seeme; shew; vse summary = good speede, I know I haue runne thorow the hands of many, censured of palme of your hand, and so by vse, you shall not only seeme to put any candlesticks &c, then first seeme to put one ball into your left hand, and seeme to put the ball which is thought to be in your left hand with your left hand you leaue behinde you a great ball, or any other charmes seeme to conuey the same ball from vnder the same box or hand into your lap, it will seeme strange, for when you open your left one testor into your left hand, with words you shall make it seeme when you open your said left hand, there shall be nothing seene: and alwaies see what Cardes hee hath in his hand, So that a few ensamples The other vse of Cardes is to shew feates of Legerdemaine. id = 50903 author = Sachs, Edwin Thomas title = Sleight of Hand: A Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs & Others date = keywords = FIG; article; audience; ball; card; cause; coin; end; finger; hand; handkerchief; hat; hold; illustration; pack; palm; pass; performer; place; table; trick summary = placed the marked coin in the left hand, but in reality palm it. to perform this trick with a coin previously sewn in a handkerchief, right hand place the hat into the left one, the thumb on the brim, the (show left hand, at same time allowing coin to fall back in the right, CARD--THE LADY''S OWN TRICK--A RAPID CHANGE PASS--METHODS to look at the top card on the pack held in your left hand, and to the performer pretends to place each card, as chosen, upon a table, the box is wide open, and in the right-hand half is placed the card, cards require considerable sleight of hand in their performance; and CARD IN COURSE OF PERFORMING--PASSING HANDKERCHIEF OVER performer has balled up under the fingers of the hand holding the left the performer''s hand, three of his own having been placed in the id = 36659 author = Stanyon, Ellis title = Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. date = keywords = ball; coin; fig; hand; handkerchief; illustration; left; paper; pass; performer; place; right; trick summary = the right hand and actually place it in the left several times; then paper, then take it from the left hand to the right, letting the coin left hand is now closed and the piece apparently passed from the right coin is placed in the performer''s right vest pocket, and is obtained by trick you place the left hand (holding the hooked coin) behind the body takes the red handkerchief in his right hand, passing the ball into the 1. Having obtained the ball from the back of the right hand, place it [Illustration: Fig. 25.--Ball in Position on Right Hand] 2. Close the right hand and place the ball on the top, (Fig. 25). Place the palm of the right hand (containing the ball) on appear to place the ball in the left hand, really opening the case to A duplicate of this small ball should be placed in the right hand id = 32492 author = Unknown title = Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including Acoustics, Electricity, Magnetism, Arithmetic, Hydraulics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Hydrostatics, Optics; Wonders of the Air-Pump; All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c., &c. to Which is Added, a Complete System of Pyrotechny; Or, the Art of Making Fire-works. date = keywords = Fig; Magic; Water; card; case; draw; end; fire; glass; illustration; inch; number; paper; person; piece; place; rocket; small; wheel summary = fill the glass, and, laying a piece of paper or thin card over the drawing away the paper, you leave the water in the glass, with its water, dry it at a moderate heat, placing it on paper capable of on the inside of this box, place a piece of looking-glass that shall fixed at the bottom of the box, place a magnetic bar, two inches long, Procure some small glass bubbles, having a neck about an inch long, _To tell the Number of Points on Three Cards, placed under Three their faces upwards; place the second person''s cards over the first, Let the person who has drawn the two cards deduct the number of each card, three-quarters of an inch long, may appear like a common-sized After the like manner let five persons draw the same card. There is another method of placing the small case, which is by letting id = 34375 author = Unknown title = Hocus Pocus Junior: The Anatomie of Legerdemain Or, the art of jugling set forth in his proper colours, fully, plainly, and exactly, so that an ignorant person may thereby learn the full perfection of the same, after a little practise. date = keywords = ball; hand; illustration; left; right; table summary = draw his cups and hold them all three in his right hand also, saying, ball in your right hand under the Cup noted B. then clap your left hand unto your mouth, seeme to suppe the ball out of downe the cup, convey the ball that is in your right hand under it, and cup noted _A_ convey the ball that you retained in your hand under it. Then with your right hand take up the second ball, and seeme to put it Then with your right hand take up the second ball, and seeme to put it holding the ball betweene your two middle fingers of your right hand, TAke a ball and lay it on the Table, and holding a knife in one hand by then seeme to put the Ball into your left hand, but let it flip into suddenly drawing your right hand thorow your left, you shall seeme to