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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 118 | 102 LATEST MAGIC try it myself, but it would be no good my trying to grow vegetables. I shouldn't have room to grow more than one radish, or one spring onion at a time, which would hardly be worth while. I finally decided to grow a few billiard balls, for use in my entertainment, and I'll show you how it's done. "You must please imagine that these three tubes are three hothouses on the new system." (Picks up and exhibits one of the little white balls.) "Of course everything has to be raised from seed in the first instance, but it would take too long to show you the whole process from the beginning, SO we will start with this little ball, grown from seed last night. In its present condition it is too small to be of any use, but by means of my intensive cul- ture we can soon make it grow larger. I will drop it into No. 1 forcing house." Performer shows little ball in right hand and makes believe to transfer it to the left, in reality rolling it, as in the well-known "Cups and Balls" trick, between the roots of the second and third fingers. The left hand, held above tube No. 1, makes the movement of crumbling an imaginary ball into it. "Now we will plant another in the same way." You pick up apparently another little white ball, but in reality the same; which has remained in the right hand. Now, however, it will be well to vary the sleight used, so you show the ball between the |