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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 178 | 162 LATEST MAGIC this for the trick block, which is now at the bottom of the tube. "Once more, ladies and gentlemen, here is the chimney pot, and here are the three bricks, for inspection by any one who cares to look at them. Perhaps some of you may be able to account for their remarkable behaviour. It's a puzzle to me; but I never was good at guessing. My own idea is that they are haunted by the ghost of Fidgety Phil. If not, I give it up." AN "OD" FORCE To avoid misconception, it may be well to state at once that the peculiar spelling of the word "od" in the above title is not a printer's error. The explanation will be found in the patter, which is founded on a discovery claimed to have been made by a scientist at one time of world-wide renown, and the responsibility for so spelling the word rests with him. For programme purposes the reader is at liberty to re-name the trick according to his own fancy. "Mysterious Motion," or "Moved by Magic" would fairly represent the effect produced, which consists in causing a borrowed coin to move automatically at the will of the operator, in various directions. The requirements for the trick are as follows: (1) The "tramway" whereon the coin is to be made to travel. This consists of a' slab of wood |