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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 34 | 24 THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. Borrow a marked dime. Take out your handkerchief, and while pretending to wrap this dime in the handkerchief, conceal it in your palm, and take care that the one previously sewn into the corner of the handkerchief can be felt easily through tho handkerchief. Giving it to one of your friends, tell him to feel that it has the dime in it, and to hold it up over his head firmly. While giving these directions to your friend, the dime that is in your palm must be transferred to your pocket, and introduced into the slit of the orange. Then bring the orange out of your pocket, and place it on a table you will keep the slit on the side away from the audience. Then make a few mesmeric passes over the hand of the per- son that holds the handkerchief, saying, "I will now destroy the sense of feeling in your hands. Tell me, can you feel tho dime ?" He will say, .6 Yes." You can reply, "Oh, you must be wrong, sir. See! I will shake out the handkerchief." Tak- ing hold of one corner of it, shake it out, saying, "Observe, nothing will fall to the ground. You see that you were mis- taken about feeling it in the handkerchief." The fact is, the dime being stitched in the corner' could not fall out, and you must take care not to let that corner of tho liandkerchief hit against the ground. Put the handkerchief in your pocket, and say, "But I must return the borrowed dime." Exclaim : "Fly, dime, into the orange on the table." Cut up orange, and show the dime concealed in it, and then restore it to its owner, asking him to tell the audienco if he finds it to bo his own marked dime. TRICK 7.-How to double your pocket money. The only preparation 1S to have four cents concealed in your left palm. Commence the trick by calling forward one of the spectators, and let him bring up his hat with him. Then borrow five cents, or have them ready to produce from your own pocket should there be any delay. Request your friend, while he places them one by one on a small plate or saucer, to count them audibly, so that the com- pany may hear their number correctly. Inquire, "How many aro there ?" He will. answer, "Five." Take up the saucer and pour them into your left hand, (where the other four are already concealed.) Then say, "Stay, I will place these in your hat, and you must raise it above your head, for all to see that noth- ing is added subsequently to them." You will have placed these nine cents in his hat unsuspected by him. Borrow five cents more. Make Pass 1, as described on page 9, appearing to throw these five into your left hand, but really |