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LUKE HONEY'S

On a spring night in March 1918, the famous illusionist, Chung Ling Soo, stood on stage at the Wood Green Empire Music Hall ill north London, preparing to catch a bullet in liis teeth. Or so the audience believed. His assistant loaded a musket, modified to fire a blank from tlie main barrel, with the bullet dropping into

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