pages: latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf, 109
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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 109 | THE MISSING LINK 93 Mr. David Devant) pointed out to me that about ninety-live per cent of my ingenuity was wasted, inasmuch as the same effect, SO far as the spectator was concerned, could be produced by infinitely simpler means, viz.:-by using a glass with double mirror partition, when all the other paraphernalia became unnecessary. You had only to load the hinder compartment with the complete chain, and after a due amount of "talkee-talkee," drop the loose links into the forward one, turn the glass round, and the deed was done. The trick, as a trick, was just as good in its new shape as before, but being at that time (compara- tively) young and foolish, its extreme simplicity spoilt it for me, and I lost all interest in it. Not long since, however, I was reminded of it by com- ing across the chain and links which had figured in my performance of the trick, and it struck me that, in a slightly modified form, it may still be worth the attention of the drawing-room conjurer. The requirements for the trick in this, its latest form, are as follows: First, the mirror glass; and as to this I may note in passing that the "mirror" is best made of tin- plate, not too highly polished, in place of the look- ing-glass plate which was, until a quite recent period, generally employed for the purpose. Secondly, a length of small iron chain, made up of twenty-six links, connected in the centre by a twenty-seventh link of brass. |