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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 23 | THE FAIRY FLOWER-POTS 7 being self-evident, but it has a pretty effect, and the exhibiting of the two pots as one in the first instance admits of the presence, within the outer one, of a secret pocket, open at top, as depicted in Fig. 7, but folding down, when not in use, flat against its side.ยน 0 o 0 0, FIG. 7 The main object of this pocket is to enable the performer to "vanish" a card. The card to be got rid of is dropped ostensibly into the flower- pot, or rather, the pot being bottomless, through it on to the table, where, when the pot is lifted, the spectators naturally expect to see it. It has however disappeared, having in fact been dropped into the pocket, where it remains concealed. Two, or even three cards may on occasion be dealt with in the same way. By covering the pocket with the 1 It is extremely difficult to construct the "pots" so that the pocket is workable on the concave inner surface, but if they are made four, five or six-sided the pocket folds against a flat surface and works perfectly.-ED, |