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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 22 | 12 THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. always remains in the hand where it was first visible to the spec- tators. The BACK of that hand where the object is first displayed must afterwards be kept well toward the spectators. Observe, the eye of the performer must rest always on the hand or object at which he desires the spectators to look, and whatever he wishes them not to notice, he himself must refrain from looking at. If it is not required that the very object that has been held up in these passes be seen again by the spectators, the performer must quietly pocket it, or drop it on a handkerchief on his ta- ble, or inside a hat, or otherwise get rid of it as soon as he con- veniently can. On the contrary, if that very object must be again produced or transferred to a person standing at some little distance, this must be effected by one of the following methods : Either you must take care beforehand to place adroitly in that person's cap or pocket a double or similar object. OR, you must walk up to him, and putting your hand on his hair, sleeve, or pocket, quickly place there the object you have all along retained, and which you must pretend by this ma- noeuvre to find in his possession. Or, lastly, you will see in the first trick subjoined, a method of substituting one object for another. FIRST TRICK.-To command a dime to pass into the centre of a ball of Berlin wool, EO that it will not be dis- covered till the ball is unwound to the very last of its threads. REQUISITE PREPARATIONS, TO DE MADE PRIVATELY. You will require a glass bowl or quart basin, and you must have a flattened tube of tin about four inches long. It must be just large enough to let a dime slide easily through it by its own weight. Round the end on this tubo wind a ball of Berlin wool of bright color, covering about two inches of the tube, and pro- jecting about an inch bevond the end of it. Place this ball with the tube in it in your right-hand pocket of coat tail, (or in the left breast-pocket, if that is largo enough to hold it completely left hand. covered.) Lastly, place a dime concealed in the palm of your Commence the exhibition of the trick by requesting one of the spectators to mark a dime (or cent) of his own, so that he will be sure to know it again. Then ask him to lend you that coin. |