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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 123 | THE BOUNDING BEANS 107 thing particular about them. You won't notice any difference between them and any other beans, but as a matter of fact they are a good deal more energetic than beans of the ordinary kind, and when they get to know and love you, they will do all sorts of remarkable things. "I will pour a few of them into this glass." (The front compartment of the mirror glass is filled to about two-thirds of its height.) "To pre- vent their getting out again without your knowing it I will press them down with a handful of these pretty paper shavings." This is also done, the quantity of paper being SO regulated, in accordance with previous experi- ment, that when pressed down it shall come half an inch or SO below the brim of the glass. "To make matters still more secure I will ask the loan of a lady's handkerchief to cover the glass with." The handkerchief is taken in the right hand, the left meanwhile raising the glass a little way to meet it. In covering and lowering it again to the table the needful half-turn is made. "I will not touch the glass again until the experi- ment is finished. Meanwhile I want to call your attention to these two tubes. You will observe that one of them is slightly larger than the other. A gentleman told me the other evening that I was wrong in saying SO. He maintained that the one was smaller than the other. I didn't argue with |