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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 177 | THE BEWILDERING BLOCKS 161 bottom, checked by the third finger, and replaces tube upright on table. "As before, I drop in first the blue, then the white, then the red." (This last being the trick block, care must be taken to keep its red sides well to the front.) "Again I left off the chimney pot, and again you see, the bricks have changed places. White has come to the top, and red has gone to the bottom again." The trick block, which this time remained at the top, is now allowed to slide down to the bottom. The tube is again placed on the table, but so turned that the blue sides of the block within it are brought to the front. "I can't tell you why the bricks behave in this way, but you can see for yourselves that I have nothing to do with it. We will try it once more, and for a change I will put the red block in first, then the white and then the blue. That order will be easy to remember. Red, white and blue reckon- ing from the bottom upwards. Again I remove the cover. The same thing has happened again, but with a little difference. White has come to the top again, but blue has this time gone to the bot- tom."7 While attention is drawn to the new order of the blocks, the performer allows the ordinary blue one, now left in the tube, to slide out into his hand, and in picking up the others secretly substitutes |