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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 160 | 144 LATEST MAGIC rather the reverse, and are intended to be used as replies to gentlemen only. Bearing this arrange- ment in mind, it is a comparatively easy matter to suit the answer to the querist. The questions must be memorised in proper order, and it is desirable to do the same with the answers also, though there should be no difficulty, remembering the principle of arrangement, in giv- ing a fairly appropriate answer, even though the memory be for the moment at fault as to its exact terms. To avoid the necessity of giving the same answer more than once, it is well to make a rule that the same question shall not be asked more than three times. The Oracle may be introduced as follows: "Allow me to introduce to your notice a curio of an exceptionally interesting kind. This elegant little affair is said to have been the private Oracle of Rameses the Second, a gentleman who flourished in Egypt about four thousand years ago. I can't be sure to a year or two, because it was before my time, but I believe that is about right. People sometimes express surprise that, being so ancient, the Oracle should be in such good condition, but that is accounted for by its having been preserved in the same case as Rammy's mummy. I don't mean his mamma, but the gentleman himself, in the cold storage of the period. The story may or may not be true. I can't take any responsibility for it. Others declare that the Oracle was the fav- |