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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 24 | 8 LATEST MAGIC fingers in the act of picking up the pot, the interior of the latter may be freely shown after their disap- pearance. The pocket, previously loaded accordingly (though the flower-pot is shown, to all appearance, empty), may also be used for the production of a card or cards. PATTER APPROPRIATE TO THE FAIRY FLOWER-POTS The flower-pots may be introduced as follows: "Permit me to call your attention to one of my latest improvements. Conjurers have a foolish fancy, as I dare say you have noticed, for borrow- ing other people's hats. If a conjurer wants to collect money from the air, he collects it in a hat. If he wants to make an omelette, he cooks it in a hat. If he wants to hatch a few chickens, he does it in a hat. And, for fear of accidents, he never uses his own hat, but always borrows somebody else's. It's very wrong of us. As Sir William Gilbert says, about some other forms of crime, 'It's human nature, P'raps. If so, O! isn't human nature low.' But we all do it. The worst of it is, we get so in the way of borrowing hats that we do it without thinking. You will hardly believe that one even- ing I came away from the theatre with two hats. |