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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 126 | 110 LATEST MAGIC LOST AND FOUND This trick may be worked either upon a black art table or black art mat. We will assume that the latter is used. The requisites for this trick will in such case be as follows: 1. The mat. This may be a small circular one, a few inches in circumference without pocket. 2. A handkerchief, fourteen or fifteen inches square, of some gaudy pattern, carefully folded and placed in a square Japanese handkerchief box.ยน 3. A circular velvet patch as described ante, in the chapter dealing with novel applications of the Black Art principle. 4. A half-crown placed in a pochette, or other- wise so as to be readily get-at-able. Presentation. Performer opens the box and takes out the handkerchief, which he carefully unfolds, handling it as if it were something of extraordinary value. "I have here, ladies, a curio of an exceptionally curious kind. This is said to be the identical handkerchief which Othello gave to Desdemona, and which afterwards caused so much unpleasant- ness. No doubt you all know your Shakespeare, and will remember that Othello tells his wife, "There's magic in the web of it.' And there is 1 The handkerchief should be readily recognizable as a cheap and commonplace one. |