pages: latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf, 183
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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 183 | inspection. The performer takes back the tram- way in the left hand, holding it by one end in such manner that it is gripped in the fork of the thumb, leaving the thumb itself comparatively free. Tak- ing back the ball with the right hand and remark- ing "Now to develop the force," he rubs it on his left coat-sleeve, and strokes the surface of the tram- way two or three times with it. "Having now established a proper degree of 'oddity' between the tram and the crystal, I will ask for the loan of a half-dollar (or florin as the case may be) marked in any way the owner pleases." He replaces the ball on the table, and in the act of again turning to the audience gets hold of the waxed disc and draws it away from the body, hold- ing it clipped between the ends of the first and sec- ond fingers, the left thumb pressing the thread against the cloth top of the tramway, and acting for the time being (and indeed throughout the trick) as a brake neutralising at pleasure the pull of the weight. He receives the coin on the tramway; then pick- ing it up with the right hand, makes some obser- vation as to the mark, meanwhile pressing the waxed side of the disc against it, then replacing it, disc down, in the middle of the tramway. |