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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 184 | 168 LATEST MAGIC "I shall now, by means of the 'od' force, compel the coin to move towards This he does accordingly, by relaxing the pressure of the thumb upon the thread and merely bringing the pull of the weight into operation. When the coin has all but reached the nearer end of the tramway, he says, "We will now see if we can make it travel a little longer distance." So saying he draws the thread out again and lays the coin on the farther end of the tram, and again makes it travel slowly back. A good effect may be here produced by making it stop half-way, and (after remarking in a casual way that the power is hardly strong enough) pick- ing up the ball, again rubbing it upon the sleeve and moving it, a few inches distance, in the direc- tion in which the coin is to travel, when it resumes its journey accordingly. Once more picking up the coin, he replaces it at the farther end of the tramway, but in so doing passes the thread outside and around the screw at that end. He then remarks, as if bethinking him- self : "By the way, a lady suggested the other night that the coin was attracted towards me by my personal magnetism. I know I am an attrac- tive man : I have been told so frequently but that is not the explanation in this case, as I will prove to you by making the coin travel away from me." So saying, he draws the coin towards him, easing off the pressure on the thread to enable him to do so, and leaves it at the inner end. The ball is |