pages: latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf, 164
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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 164 | 148 LATEST MAGIC improvement, and after some cogitation I suc- ceeded in producing a new trick on somewhat sim- ilar lines; but free from the defect mentioned above and capable withal of producing a far wider variety of effects. I use two tubes of stiff cardboard, each about four inches long by one and a half in diameter. One of these is just a plain tube with no speciality SECTION FIG. 29 about it. The other has a piece of fine wire cross- ing it midway from side to side, and taking the form of a halfhoop, as shown in Fig. 29, the ends serving as pivots on which it moves freely. On the outside, one of its ends is turned down vertically, forming a tiny switch or handle. The normal tendency of the halfhoop is to hang downward across the tube (thereby closing it to the passage of a ball) but a touch of the finger, moving the little |