Keith's network of magicians grew and his confidence in the magic industry grew. Keith begged his father to let him travel with Charlie and so began Keith's magical journey. As with any caravan-magician, it came time for Charlie to move on to the next town in search of the next audience. Keith was offered some work and jumped at the opportunity, learning some of the art of show business and the tricks of the magic trade. One day the horse-van of Charles (Charlie) Sloggett pulled into St Arnaud and set up an old tent with a sign, 'The Incomparable Sloggetts'. In his own partial biography, 'The Magician Dreams', Keith wrote: "Those years taught me how to be tough and sleep out in all weathers and go without food, and travel and mix with all sorts of people and how to entertain those people in all sorts of conditions." During the Depression years, with work scarce for his father and a large family to feed, Keith decided it was best to leave school at 13 to find work on local farms. Keith Oswald Clyde Abson (6 June 1912 to 29 September 1988) grew up as the second eldest of 10 children in the rural towns of Wedderburn and St Arnaud in Victoria. This amazed the young boy and triggered a lifelong passion for the wonderment of magic. In the dusty streets of central Victoria, a man stood in front of a young boy with a playing card in his hands, slowly tore it into pieces, and then with magic, put it back together as new.
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