pages: latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf, 144
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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 144 | 128 LATEST MAGIC tists tell us that the sun throws out three sorts of rays; light-rays, heat-rays, and force-rays. The artful witch doctors have found out a way of bottling off the force rays. They are mild at first, but when they get old in the bottle, so to speak, they become so strong that if you know how to do it you can lift the heaviest weights with them. "I managed to get hold of a small bottle of the rays" (show bottle) "and I will show you, on a very small scale, how the thing is done. "First, we will take the pagoda to pieces." Standing behind the table, the performer moves the pagoda to the corner of the tray nearest his own left hand; SO as to leave space for the different portions when separated. He then picks up all the parts save the base, holding them carefully together, and drawing away with them a length of the thread about equal to the diagonal of the tray. Passing the undermost section downwards along the thread, he lays it down beside the base, afterwards treating the other portions in the same way, the several portions finally resting on the tray somewhat as shown in Fig. 23. If the length of the thread has been properly gauged (this is a matter to be determined by experiment beforehand), there should be some twelve or fourteen inches of "slack." Slipping the ring at the end over the little hook before mentioned, the performer moves a little away from the table, SO as to draw this portion |