Then I illustrated the performance of the street tests, taking both those in which you will drive and those in which you will walk or run. Later you have been told that you are to select your subjects with due caution, and now I will divide the show into its respective classes, giving the entertainment that is partly hypnotism, partly mind-reading and partly other branches of the higher phenomena.

The first division will explain that entertainment that is undertaken on the large order in which you carry two hypnotic subjects and a psychic. You have a manager and an advance man. You bill the towns "like a country circus." Your entertainment is to catch the general public. From the time you arrive in town until the end of the performance, your procedure will be as follows:

Assignment of duty to boys of getting large stone and ordering dray to take it to opera house.

Putting subject to sleep in show window, preceded by a little speech similar to one given in second part of book.

Street drive next day.

Opening of entertainment with a speech on the wonders of the transference of thought, saying but little in regard to hypnotism. The speech can be framed after the one preceding the mind-reading entertainment as contained in this part.

Selection of committee by audience.

Awakening of subject.

Mind-reading test of finding an article hidden in audience.

Test of finding a ring and taking it to party to whom it belongs and placing on correct finger.

Finding several hats and their owners, placing them on their heads.

The test with the pin.

Here you will remove your bandage, informing the audience that as soon as your eyes have become used to light you will proceed with entertainment.

Then introduce your psychic, boy or girl, or woman, as the case may be.

First test will be the blindfolding of the subject. After explaining the test to be given, one of the committee hides a knife on the stage somewhere and tells you by motion when everything is ready. Then, through force of thought-transference alone and without making a noise, you direct your psychic to the place where knife is hidden.

Next test will be the reading of a card selected by the committee. You do not speak a word or touch the psychic nor does any one else of your company come on stage during this part of entertainment.

Next test will be telling what some one in the audience holds up, you seeing it and projecting the thought.

Next test will be the reading of a few sealed questions held by parties in the audience.

Telling the time by a watch which has purposely been turned by a member of the committee.

Two or three Clairvoyant readings.

Now your speech to the effect that you will have a short intermission, after which you will put on the hypnotic show.

Thanks to committee.

The speech introducing the hypnotic show as given in the second part of this volume.

Trying subjects as class and picking out of best subjects.

Picking strawberries. Have as many as possible.

Three or four believing that they are fishing.

The Cakewalk.

Two nursing babies.

The hypnotic jag.

The horse race.

The man thinking he is the little boy in school, speaking some childish piece.

The orators.

Anaesthesia. Puncturing arm and sewing lips.

The cataleptic subject - who will be your own.

Placing him in various stages and finally getting strong man on stage for stone-breaking act.

Thanking audience, strong man and subjects.

Intermingled with this will be the little speeches that you will have to make from time to time explaining your tests and your acts.

This is the expensive show, the one that costs much to stage and the one which will reap the harvest. You will play towns from 5,000 to 100,000 or more.

The next is the modest psychic entertainment, where you have a psychic but no other subject. They you depend upon from the audience. You will be in town on and during the day of the entertainment. You have no window sleeper.

Your procedure of entertainment will be on the following lines:

At the appointed time you give your street drive. You avoid in this class of entertainment anything of the speech on the street. The man with the larger show can do so, and profitably, but the one with the smaller one will gain more by not doing so.

At the opening of your entertainment you deliver a speech similar to the one he of the larger show would deliver, or along the lines given for the opening of the mind-reading entertainment.

Then you have the audience select your committee.

Your tests will then be similar to the ones given by the man in the larger show.

The second half - the psychic, or higher phenomena part - will depend upon your psychic. If you have a good one you can make it as elaborate as the other man did.

Nor do your speeches or tests have to vary. In the hypnotic part you will have fewer to take part and may not have enough to introduce a cake-walk. If this is the case, in its stead you may bring in some such tests as having a tight rope walker, the rubber nose, the barbers, or numerous other tests.

The principal difference comes in the towns you play, the way you bill them, the money you expend and the money you take in.

Never enter into an enterprise of this kind on a large scale until your own experience tells you that you can safely do so. No matter what any l>ook may say, no matter what any other hypnotist tells you. you have one teacher greater and better than all the rest - Experience. If you are an apt pupil you will learn many valuable lessons; if you are dull, you may learn many things to your bitter sorrow. But do not fear on this account. It would be the same if you stayed back of the counter of a grocery store. You are the same until experience, in its many and varied forms, has changed you.