[The Miracle Mongers an Expos by Harry Houdini]@TWC D-Link bookThe Miracle Mongers an Expos CHAPTER NINE 12/13
After this he will drink four or five glasses more out of the pail, and then comes up the rose-water, to the admiration of the beholders.
You are to understand, that the heat of his body working with his rose-water gives a full and fragrant smell to all the water that comes from him as if it were the same. The spectators, confused at the novelty of the sight, and looking and smelling on the water, immediately he takes the opportunity to convey into his hand another glass; and this is a glass of Angelica water, which stood prepared for him behind the pail or basket, which having drunk off, and it being furthered with four or five glasses of luke-warm water, out comes the evacuation, and brings with it a perfect smell of the Angelica, as it was in the rose-water above specified. To conclude all, and to show you what a man of might he is, he has an instrument made of tin, which he puts between his lips and teeth; this instrument has three several pipes, out of which, his arms a-kimbo, a putting forth himself, he will throw forth water from him in three pipes, the distance of four or five yards.
This is all clear water, which he does with so much port and such a flowing grace, as if it were his master-piece. He has been invited by divers gentlemen and personages of honour to make the like evacuation in milk, as he made a semblance in wine.
You are to understand that when he goes into another room, and drinks two or three pints of milk.
On his return, which is always speedy, he goes first to his pail, and afterwards to his vomit.
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