After the Dessert
by Martin Gardner

You will find tricks with bills, cigarettes, coins, matches, silverware, napkins and salt shakers, all things which are readily available at any restaurant or dinner table.

This ebook was written for the performer, professional or amateur, who is seeking good, well-tested effects which do not require elaborate practice, preparation, or skill.

Martin has chosen only tricks which make use of objects found at any dinner table. All are performed while seated, with spectators on both right and left. A few of the effects are original, but most of them have been picked up from friends who picked them up from friends, so it was impossible to trace them to their origin.

Since After the Dessert was such a success, Martin wrote a second booklet with similar impromptu tricks for the table: Over the Coffee Cups.

BILLS
7. The Curious Fold
7. Naming the Date on a Borrowed Bill
8. Four Piles and a Dollar Bill

   CIGARETTES

8. The Unreversed Word
9. The Magic Inhale
9. Biting the Cigarette

   COINS

9. Coin Through the Plate
10. Vanishing Coin
10. Testing the Half Dollar

    MATCHES

11. Lighting a Match twice
11. Color Changing Heads
12. Folder Mathematics
13. Shooting the Match
13. Match Folder Wager
13. The Nazi Cross

    MISCELLANEOUS

13. Tapping Table Objects
14. Japanese Paper Bird
14. Vanishing Coffee Steam
15. Travelling Fountain Pen

    SILVERWARE

15. Table Knife Through Body
16. Breaking the Spoon
16. Bending the Spoon
17. Swallowing the Knife
17. Musical Knife
18. Spoon to Knife
18. Vanishing Spoon

    NAPKIN

19. Character Reading from the Teeth
19. Improvised Brassiere
20. The Invisible Hair

    SALT SHAKER

20. Vanishing Salt Shaker