pages: latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf, 168
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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 168 | 152 LATEST MAGIC "As some of you have not had the opportunity of personally examining the tube I should like to prove to you in the first place that it is really what it appears to be, a simple cardboard cylinder, open from end to end, and as free from deception as I am myself. "Proof 1." (Wand dropped through tube on to table.) "Proof 2." (Tube held in front of candle show- ing flame through it."7) "Proof 3." (Tube dropped over candle as in Fig. 30, or spun on wand, held horizontally as in Fig. 31 Fig. 31; the halfhoop in each case being made to lie against the side of the tube.) "I have here a little ball, of such a size that it passes easily through the tube."1 The ball is allowed to fall through, from the one hand to the other. Now I will place the tube upright on the 1 If preferred the ball instead of being taken openly from the table, may be produced from the wand after the fashion familiar in the Cup and Ball trick, but on the whole I think this is best omitted. |