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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 25 | THE FAIRY FLOWER-POTS 9 One of them was my own. The other I had bor- rowed-from under the seat. You don't believe it? Well, I said you wouldn't. I always know! "But that is not all. It isn't only the bad effect on the conjurer's own morals, and sometimes on the hat. People are SO careless. They do leave such funny things in their hats. Cannon balls and birdcages; babies' socks and babies' bottles; rab- bits and pigeons, and bowls of fish, and a host of other things. And just when you are going to pro- duce some brilliant effect, you are pulled up short by finding some silly thing of that sort in the hat. It's most annoying. "So, after thinking it over, I made up my mind to do away with hats altogether. Of course I don't mean for putting on people's heads, but so far as conjuring is concerned, and it struck me that a pretty flower-pot, like this, would form a capital substitute." (Show as one, the combined pots, inside and out.) "Much nicer than a hat, don't you think? It is prettier, to begin with, and then again, you can see right through it, and make sure there is no deception. You see that at pres- ent the pot is perfectly empty. "But no! I scorn to deceive you. I am like George Washington, except that I haven't got a little axe. I cannot tell a lie. At least it hurts me very much to do so, and I don't feel well enough to do it now. No! It is useless any longer to dis- guise it! The pot is not really empty, for you see |