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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 27 | THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. 17 My young friends must remember that it is absolutely neces- sary to keep up in spectators their belief in the niysterious, and therefore must decline on the spot to give explanations before or after the performance of this trick, however they may be dis- posed to reveal the secret privately to any friend. A singular instance is recorded of a person who was grievously disappointed when by importunity he had received an explanation of this very trick, which had appeared at first to him a most marvellous phe- nomenon; and he was quite annoyed when the gilt was stripped off his ginger-bread. It is said that a gentleman walked into a FIG. 7. 00 coffee-room at Manchester, England, and was exhibiting to a friend the above trick. A traveler at a table near them had his attention drawn by their laughing discourse, while one of them exhibited the trick to the other. The cold barrier of English reserve was broken down, and he addressed one of the strangers, requesting to be informed how the trick was done. For his part he imagined it must be connected with some perfectly new phil- osophical law of attraction involved in the experiment. " Will yon be kind enough to tell me I shall be happy to offer n fee to learn it. I was about to proceed by the next train, but I will gladly defer my journey to understand this, which appears so unaccountable." |