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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 124 | 108 LATEST MAGIC him. I never do with that sort of man. It is just a question of the point of view. Anyhow, I had the one made larger, or the other one smaller, whichever way it is, SO that the one can go com- fortably over the other, like this." first carelessly moved about so as to show clearly that it is empty, is brought down over B and lifted off again, carrying off within it C and its load; after which B is in turn shown to be empty. "Now I am goong to order the beans to jump out of the glass and into one or other of these empty tubes, at your own choice. Right? or left? Which shall it be?" Performer asks the question standing behind his table, and by means of the familiar equivoque ("my" or "your" left or right) interprets the answer to mean A. "And now I have only to pronounce the proper magic spell. The trouble is to remember the right one. They are rather confusing, and if you hap- pen to pronounce the wrong one, or even pronounce the right one the wrong way, the consequences may be serious. But I think I know this one pretty well. 'Peripatetico-paticocorum.' I fancy I have got it right. I don't know quite what it means myself, and nobody seems to be able to tell me. A Japanese gentleman told me he thought it was Spanish, but a Spaniard said he felt sure it was Welsh. Somebody else suggested that I |