Joe Strong, the boy wizard; or, The mysteries of magic exposed

Four boys sat under the shade of a big willow tree in a grassy meadow on the bank of a stream. They were earnestly discussing something, the import of which may be gathered from...

“No, I can’t do anything more just now,” he said in answer to the implied request. “I can’t produce a guinea pig from Tom’s ear, nor a bowl of gold fish from under my shirt; tho...

For a few moments after the excitement caused by the explosion and fire, the five boys rushed on together, saying nothing. Their eyes were fixed on the distant group of burning...

There was so much going on—firemen and eager volunteers working at the hose and apparatus, railroad men and factory employees endeavoring to get out of the danger zone a car loa...

“Not right away,” Joe answered. “I had an idea I’d like to call on the professor to see if he was all right. It isn’t every day I help rescue a man that way, you know.”

The meeting between Joe Strong and the magician had quite a different result from the one our young wizard had expected. He had not been sure that his father would be known, eve...

Bitter at heart was Joe Strong as he walked slowly into his room and shut the door. This was a common form of punishment with the deacon, since he had given up his frequent whip...

Deacon Blackford did not answer at once. He remained in his seat at his desk, looking first at one man and then at the other. Often his fingers would beat a drumming tattoo on t...

The noise which Joe Strong had heard was not caused, as he had feared, by the rousing of Deacon Blackford. All things considered, it might have been well for Joe had it been.

Joe Strong, unaware of the exciting events that were taking place in the home of his foster-parents—a home he had deserted for what, to him, were good and sufficient reasons—hur...

Deacon Blackford had certainly heard a noise. It was not the slight sound made by Joe Strong, when that young magician made his escape from the house, but it was the louder nois...

Joe Strong slid half-way across the “side-door Pullman,” as he had called the freight car into which he had jumped from the station platform. One cause for his sliding was the f...

Joe could hardly believe his good luck. When he decided to run away he had no settled plans in mind. All he expected to do was to seek out Professor Rosello, and ask him what wo...

“You’re not afraid to be made to vanish into thin air, are you?” asked Professor Rosello of Joe, that being part of the “patter” of this trick. “You don’t mind being made to van...

While Joe Strong was thus making his first public appearance as a wizard, or, rather, as a magician’s assistant, quite different scenes were being enacted in his home town and a...

Even larger crowds than attended on the first evening, greeted Joe Strong and Professor Rosello at the two following performances. The wonder of the disappearing trick, as well...

The young wizard made a few “magical” passes in the air over the pistol he held up in front of the audience, which was now keyed up to a point of nervous anticipation. The man w...

“Don’t take it so to heart, Joe,” begged Harry, after a moment’s pause. “I didn’t mean to spring it on you this way. I thought maybe you knew something about it.”

And now for the explanation of the egg trick. It is so simple that any of you may do it at home, with just an ordinary egg, a fruit jar and some salt. Don’t forget the salt.

and the fresh, being lighter, on top. If you do it carefully enough, pouring in a little fresh water at a time, you will have, as Joe had, a jar with two layers of different kin...

Joe did not have to ask his way to the circus grounds. He had only to follow the crowd, mostly made up of small boys, though with a goodly sprinkling of young men, all of whom w...

“Oh, I can’t get any lump sugar for Rosebud, and you know he won’t eat the other kind.” Her lips pouted prettily, and then she smiled—Joe declared at him, though it may have bee...

Because of what had happened and the trouble that might be caused to Joe should his foster-father cause his arrest, Professor Rosello made a change in the end of his show. He su...

Joe had been reading a letter when Professor Rosello came in with the strange news about the two men. The letter was from Benny Turton, the “human fish,” of Sampson Brothers’ Ci...

Joe did not know what to do. He could not very well run away through that crowd. To do so would be such a confession of guilt that almost any officer would arrest him. And Hen S...

“What’s the joke?” demanded Jake Harrison, with a sort of sneer as he looked at the handcuffs on his wrists. “If this is one of your conjuring tricks, you’ve come to the wrong s...