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of the garden was very gay with the English people dressed in their Sunday go to meeting clothes, and the flowers were gay too, nodding their pretty heads in the sunshine. (No more such sentiment.) 
June 16th 1890 Monday
We began lessons to-day and had rather a hard time of it. This afternoon we went to Maskelyne and Cooks. It is very good, that is the tricks, and the little play at the end. The man who did the tricks was really 
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wonderful; you could not imagine how they were done.  There was a woman, supposed to be his sister, who told the addition of any sum a stranger wrote on the black board while she sat on a little platforme slightly raised from the floor she was very and I for one cannot think how she did it. The play at the end was the same as we saw last year. Their is a wonderful box in it which a man is tied up in and in less than two minutes disappears. That is he gets out of the box in the most mysterious way. 

Transcription Notes:
Maskelyne and Cooke [sic] - name checked - a magic show of the time