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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 73 | THE TELEPATHIC TAPE 57 "Well, as I was saying, or as I was going to say when the lady interrupted me--I mean compli- mented me, by smiling-Upon my word, I've for- gotten for the moment what I was going to say, but I daresay it was of no consequence, SO we'll skip it, and proceed àt once to "business as usual.' "Observe, I just draw the magnet slowly across from the one flower-pot to the other, when the single card, being naturally the weaker, will be drawn out of its own flower-pot, and join the other two." (Looks into flower-pot holding the pair.) "Yes, it has found its way, as you see.77 (Lifts the pot, and shows that the third card is on the table with the other two.) "And as it's a well-known fact that nobody but a bird can be in two places at the same time, it naturally follows that it is no longer in this other pot, which is once more empty." (Lifts it up and shows that it is so.) Variation. If the flower-pots are not available, the single card may be placed in a card box, or other suitable appliance adapted for causing its disappearance, the other two, with the concealed card, being dropped from the mat into a borrowed hat. THE TELEPATHIC TAPE Requirements. Two or three yards of half-inch tape or ribbon, wound on a reel, to which its inner end is secured, and having a loop on its outer end. Coin mat made adhesive, and two packs of cards, |