"A Séance on the Ice": an illustration from The Children's Fairy History of England by Forbes Edward Winslow (1889).  The caption reads: "What!  Mesmerise you on the ice!  Well, I never!  Did any one ever hear of such a thing?  Oh, you all want it, do you?  Well, I will try.  You need not take off your skates.  I will mesmerise you skating, and we will be here, and there, and everywhere, at the same time.  Just come close round me and look at me; don't speak, simply watch my hands. * * * * * * *"