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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 112 | 96 LATEST MAGIC the same effect, but I use Eau de Cologne because it smells nicer. And now I must ask the loan of some lady's handkerchief, to cover the glass, and concentrate the electric current." Holding the handkerchief in right hand, pick up the glass with left hand, and raise it a few inches from the table. In lowering it, cover it with the handkerchief, and at the same time give it the necessary half-turn. Take out your watch, and make believe to time the operation, remarking, "I find it needs a full half-minute, to allow the charm to work. Time! Let us see how we have suc- ceeded." Take off the handkerchief, and draw the chain slowly out of the glass. "Yes. All is well. I should say welded, and I trust you will say, 'Well done.' The chain is complete, and now consists of twenty-seven links, the lucky number. Perhaps some gentleman will verify the fact. "I must tell you frankly that I don't guarantee the correctness of my explanation. I can't say exactly how much the electricity has to do with it. I only know that if you go to work the right way, which means, do as I do, you gret the result, and there you are. This experiment always provokes a lot of discussion. The other evening one gentle- man said it was done this way. A lady said it was that way, and a sharp boy (the younger they are the more they know) was quite sure it was done another way altogether. But they were all wrong. |