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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: Silence and decorum being restored,
Mr. Sothern thus continued:
``Thirteen weeks ago, while walking up
Greenwich Street, in New York, I stepped
into a store to buy a cigar. To show you
there is no trick about it, here are cigars
out of the same box from which I selected
the one I that day lighted.'' (Here Mr.
Sothern passed around a box of tolerable
cigars.)
``Well, I stepped to the little hanging
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