pg. 12
prestidigitation is another word for sleight of hand, legerdemain
to prestidigitate something would seem to mean to conjure something, "magically"
the cousin from Prague, Josef, just collected a bunch of cigarette stubs, and made a new cigarette by rolling into a new paper the remains in the stubs. he "had prestidigitated a perfect cylinder, as thick and straight and nearly as smooth as if rolled by machine." well, he 'pressed' the roll with his 'digits' and shaped it into a cylinder, but this is different from "conjuring" it like a magic trick...
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