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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 122 | 106 LATEST MAGIC The remainder are to be brought forward on some sort of tray.ยน C loaded as last described, is to be placed within B. The trick may be introduced as follows: "Most of you, I dare say, have seen the little natural curiosity known as the Jumping Bean. To all appearance these are just like other beans; but if you spread a dozen or SO of them on the table and watch them carefully, you presently see one or more of them turn over, or even make a little jump. A young and lively bean will sometimes hop as far as half an inch. "Scientific gentlemen tell us that their agility is caused by a little insect inside the bean. When he wags his tail, or scratches himself with his hind leg, it causes the bean to turn over, or to make a hop. That seems to me rather a lame explanation because there is no hole in the bean that the insect could possibly have got in at. I believe myself, that they are in truth magic beans, and I have been trying to train some beans of my own to do the same thing on a larger scale, and in such a way that you can all see them do it. "Here are my beans." (Show those on tray.) "Examine them as much as you like. The more you examine them, the more you won't find any- 1 The little dishes of paper pulp sold for pienic purposes will be found to answer this and similar purposes excellently and have the further advantage of being exceptionally portable. |