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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 176 | 160 LATEST MAGIC in the chimney. They go in quite easily; but when they are once inside they can't turn round, or turn over, or change places. But the curious thing is that though they can't they do, as you will see presently. "I place the chimney-pot here on the table, where you can see all round it, and I drop the three bricks into it one by one. Notice particu- larly the order in which I put them in. First, the blue. You heard it go down. Next, the white, and now, the red. Don't forget. Blue at the bot- tom, white in the middle, and red at the top. "Now, without my saying or doing anything, they will at once begin to shift about. They can't keep still for more than a few seconds. When I lift off the chimney pot, you will find that they have changed places." (It is lifted accordingly, per- former holding back the uppermost block within it by gentle pressure on opposite angles of the tube, and exhibiting only the three lower blocks now as in Fig. 34.) "There, as I told you, like Fidgety Phil, they couldn't keep still. The white brick has climbed to the top, the red one has gone down to the bot- tom, and the blue one is now in the middle. "We will try again. I will put the bricks in in just the same order, to make it easier for you to remember them." Performer has meanwhile allowed the red block, left in the upper part of the tube, to sink to the |