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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 33 | THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. 23 TRICK 5.-To make a quarter and a penny change places, while held in the hands of two spectators. PREPARATION. Have a quarter of your own secreted in your right hand. Then borrow two handkerchiefs, and a quarter and a penny, from any one in the audience. Tell the lender to mark or accu- rately observe them, so that he will know them again. In plac- ing them on the table, substitute your own quarter for the bor- rowed one, and conceal the borrowed one in your palm. MEMORANDUM. It is better to use things borrowed than coin of your own. Still, the conjuror should provide himself with articles requisite to display any trick, or otherwise much delay may occasionally arise while borrowing them. Commence the trick by pointing out where the quarter and the penny are lying on the table. Take up the penny and show it openly to all. Then take up one of the handkerchiefs, and while pretending to wrap up the penny in it, substitute in its place the borrowed quarter which you had concealed in your palm, and ask one of your friends to feel that it is enfolded in the handkerchief, and bid him hold the handkerchief enclosing it above his head. Ask him if he has got the penny there safely. He will reply that he has. Then take up your own quarter which was laid upon the ta- ble ; pretend to wrap it up in the second handkerchief, but adroitly substitute the penny, (which you concealed in your palm while wrapping up the first handkerchief.) Ask some friend to hold it up above his head, indulging in some facetious remark. Slip your own quarter into your pocket. Clap your hands or wave your wand, saying, "Change." Tell your friends to unfold their handkerchiefs. They will be astonished to find that the quarter and penny have changed places. TRICK 6.-Another trick with the dime, handkerchief, and an orange or lemon PREPARATION. Have an orange or lemon ready, with a slit made in its side sufficiently large to admit the dime easily ; and have in your pocket a good-sized silk handkerchief with a dime stitched inio one of its corners. |