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Mind reading

Chapter 8: Three Meals a Day.
By W. E. Skinner
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A practical manual reveals that popular stage mind-reading feats depend on muscle reading and involuntary physical cues rather than psychic forces. It gives step-by-step methods for locating hidden objects while blindfolded, selecting and handling a cooperative subject, sensing subtle resistance or leaning to guide movement, and applying the same cues to identify piano keys or letters on a board. The volume stresses practice, audience selection, and avoiding skeptical accomplices, offers performance tips and common failure explanations, and frames the techniques as teachable conjuring methods rather than supernatural phenomena.

Three Meals a Day.

Ma an’ the girls, at break o’ day,
They’re up an’ at it, workin’ away,
Flyin’ round as spry’s can be,
(Pervidin’ for pa an’ the boys, you see,)
Don’t do nothin’ only cook,
An’ cook, an’ cook, an’ cook, an’ cook;—
Beef, beans, biscuits, sass, an’ stew,
Cookies an’ pies, and a lot more, too;
An’ when she’s done, my ma’ll say, “There!
Clean beat out, I do declare.
Might do somethin’,” my ma she’ll say,
“Only for gettin’ three meals a day!”
Pa an’ the boys, at break o’ day,
They’re up an’ out, an’ workin’ away,
Hustlin’ round as spry’s can be,
(Pervidin’ for ma an’ the girls, you see,)
Plowin’, fencin’, mowin’ too,
Choppin’ an’ plantin’,—the hul day through!
An’ then they’ll jest come home, an’ eat,
An’ eat, an’ eat, an’ eat, an’ eat;
An’ when he’s through, my pa’ll say, “There!
Feel like a new man, I declare.
Couldn’t do nothin’,” my pa he’ll say,
“Only for gettin’ three meals a day!”