Magic From Below

From the Introduction:

Let the reader not misunderstand the title of this book - the term "below" has reference to the Antipodes, where the writer has his dwelling, and not to those regions whence an earlier and more credulous people imagined the magician to derive his powers.

• Introduction
• The Magic Pop-gun
• The Versatile Tube
• Eat More Fruit
• Hell's Bells!
• Pickled Pieces
• " - and the dish ran away with the spoon"
• Cones within Cones
• These Little Pigs
• "Just on and off!"
• The Beetle Crawls
• The Productive Flower Pots
• The Great Packing Case Escape
• The Tell-tale Cigarette
• The Dunce's Cap, or "Beware of the Joker!"
• Tea and Sugar
• The Rival Imps
• "No place like home"
• The Sorcerer's Scissors
• A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
• "The Curse of Scotland"
• A Message from the Sea
• The Chinese Porter
• Pistol and Golliwog
• The Balls that rebounded
• A Box of Sweets

1st edition 1929, 176 pages; PDF 71 pages.
word count: 28448 which is equivalent to 113 standard pages of text