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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 35 | THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. 25 retaining them in your right hand, which is to fall by your side as if empty. Afterwards get rid of four of the five cents into your pocket, retaining only one in your right palm. Hold up your closed left hand, and say, while blowing on it: Pass, cents, from my left hand into the hat. Now, sir, be kind enough to see if they have come into your possession. Please to count them aloud while placing them in the saucer." He will be surprised, as well as the spectators, to find that the cents in his hat have become nine. You may then put on a rather offended look, and say: "Ah, sir ! ah ! I did not think you would do so ! You have taken one out, I fear." Approaching your right hand to his sleeve, shake the sleeve, and let the one cent, which you have in your own hand, drop audibly into the saucer. It will raise a laugh against the holder of the hat. You can say : 'Excuse me, I only made it appear that you had taken one. However, you see that the original money is now doubled." TRICK 8.-The injured handkerchief restored. PREPARATION. Have a dime of your own wrapped in the centre of a piece of cambric about five or six inches in diameter, the ends falling down loose. Conceal these in the palm of your left hand. Borrow a marked dime from any of the spectators, and a white cambric handkerchief. Throw the handkerchief spread out over your left palm, (holding under the handkerchief your own dime wrapped in the small piece of cambric ) Openly place the borrowed dime on the centre of the spread- out handkerchief. Keeping hold of that dime, jerk the ends of the handkerchief over, so as to fall loose down from the lower side of your left hand. Draw out from between your thumb and fingers (that is from the upper side of your left hand) about two inches of the smaller piece of cambric, containing your own dime. The spectators will naturally conceive the two pieces of cambric you hold in that hand to be merely the cambric hand- kerchief. ) Call any of the spectators forward, and request him to mark off with his knife the portion of the piece of calico which holds your own dime, and whisper to him to cut it completely off, and to let the dime drop on the table. The spectators will believe that he has cut a hole in the handkerchief itself, and that the dime falling out is the one you recently borrowed, whereas it is in fact the other piece of calico that has been cut, and the bor- rowed coin remains still wrapped up in the handkerchief. |