I Am Not An Irretrievable Skeptic. I

Look At This Life - All Mystery And Magic.

But Then, So Far As I Know, I Am The Only Performer Who Ever Pledged His Assistants To Secrecy, Honor And Allegiance Under A Notarial Oath.

My Professional Life Has Been A Constant Record Of Disillusion, And Many Things That Seem Wonderful To Most Men Are The Every-day Commonplaces Of My Business.

I Knew, As Everyone Knows, That The Easiest Way To Attract A Crowd Is To Let It Be Known That At A Given Time And A Given Place Some One Is Going To Attempt Something That In The Event Of Failure Will Mean Sudden Death. That's What Attracts Us To The Man Who Paints The Flagstaff On The Tall Building, Or To The 'human Fly' Who Scales The Walls Of The Same Building.

The Greatest Escape I Ever Made Was When I Left Appleton, Wisconsin.