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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 23 | THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. 13 Holding it up in your right hand, you may say, 'Now. ladies and gentlemen, this is the marked dime which I shall experi- ment with. The gentleman has accurately marked it, so that there can be no mistako about its identity when reproduced." Then by Pass 1 pretend to transfer the marked coin to your left hand, but in reality retain it in your right hand. Next, hand with your left hand your own dimo (which had been secreted in 'hat hand) to some person. and request him to hold it. Chooso for this person some one three or four yards distant from your- self, and also from the person who originally marked the coin. It is unnecessary to explain that you do so, lest the two should compare notes. Of course, the person who is asked to hold it will believe that it is the very dime that was borrowed. Yon may proceed to say : "Now we waut a ball of worsted.' So, placing your right hand in your pocket, pretend to fecl about for something in your pocket, and while doing so you must place the dime in the top of the tin tube, and shako it down. Then carefully draw the tube ont of the ball of worsted; and leavo the tube in your pocket, bnt draw tho ball out of your pocket, pressing it together whilo doing so. Then request some one to fecl the ball in order to ascertain that it has no opening towards its centre. Yon mayhero mako some humorons remark about your having such a ball in your pocket. As for instance: : ": Ladies may think it od:l that I havo such a ball of Berlin wool in my pocket. It was bought to please my consin Mary Ann, or my Aunt Tabitha. Well, it will do very fairly for our experiment. Then request somo ono to hold tho glass basin containing the woollen ball. Whilo you retain in your hand the end of tho woollen thread, address the gentleman who has consented to hold the dime, asking him to hand it to you. Tako it in your right hand, pretend by Pass 1 to transfer it to your left hand, but in reality keep it concealed in your right hand. Holding up your closed left hand, (which in fact has nothing in it.) yon may say : "Now, dime, pass along this woollen thread into the very centro of the woollen ball which is there held in tho glass bowl or basin." Blow upon your left hand, and show that the dime is gone. You must adroitly get rid of the dime, which has remained secreted in your right hand, by placing it in your pocket or sleeve while making somo humorous remark, or whilo asking somo lady or gentleman to draw tho woollen thread till it is all unwound. It will bo dono tho quicker by letting the ball bo confined loosely in the bowl with two fingers preventing its leaping out. |