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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 107 | MONEY-MAKING MADE EASY 91 "But here I must really draw the line. If k ept on like this, there would be none of the original penny left. It is already getting weaker and weaker. Besides, there wouldn't be time for any- thing else, and I have several still more wonderful things to show you. "And now to put these extra pennies back again into the original coin. At present it is only one- fifth its proper weight and if the owner tried to pass it in this condition there would be trouble. I should explain, by the way, that these others are not really solid coins: though they look like it. They are what the spiritualists call astral coins, if you know what that means: I don't quite know myself; SO I won't attempt to explain, but I believe in the Police Courts they are known as 'duffers.' ", Lay all five coins on the velvet mat, each of the shells slightly overlapping the solid coin to which it belongs. "Here we have one, two, three, four, five. I pick up two of them." (Draw shell over solid in act of picking up.) "I give them a gentle squeeze and they become one only." (Show as one, and replace on mat behind the mouth of pocket.) "Now I treat two more in the same way." (Repeat accordingly, replacing these also, as one, on mat.) "We have now only three left. Let me see, which is the original? Ah here it is, with the owner's mark upon it." (Pick it up and show in left hand.) "Now I rub one of these others into |