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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 116 | 100 LATEST MAGIC doubt it would be very fine indeed. The worst of it is that it would take a year or two to try them, SO for the present I am obliged to leave things as they are. "You will observe that I have here three tubes" (showing No. 1 and passing wand through it to prove it is empty), "quite ordinary tubes, with a hole at each end, and nothing at all between. I don't suppose you would notice anything to object to about them, but some people are so very par- ticular. A gentleman who said he had an artistic eye (I don't know which eye it was) said to me, 'Look here, Professor, that trick of yours would be ever SO much better if you had all those tubes the same size. That lot looks as if you had picked them up at a jumble sale.'ยน I explained to him, kindly but firmly, that there was a special reason for having the three tubes of different sizes; namely, that by so doing it was made possible" (suiting the action to the word) "to pass this one (No. 1) over this other (No. 2): ; and this again over the smallest one, thereby saving much space in packing. He said, "Never mind, you take my tip and make 'em all the same size.' I dare say he was right, but I haven't had time to do it yet." During this little harangue, which appears to be mere "spoof," you have practically worked the trick. Suiting the action to the word, you have passed the largest tube No. 1 over No. 2 and lifted 1 Rummage, |