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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 41 | THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. 31 that you must have more candles, or must remove some other object, thus gaining the opportunity to fetch what you require without naming it. Do not even announce too fully or vauntingly beforehand what is to be the result or development of any trick; rather proceed with it, and let the audience come unexpectedly upon a result which they had not contemplated. Their surprise will be greater, and their amusement more lively, at such unexpected result. It is for this reason that it will be well to avoid the repetition of the same trick in the same evening, though requested to per- form it over again. The minds of the spectators have already traced once the whole performance of it-the beginning, the middle, the end. The zest of it, therefore, is gone off; their minds are languid and disinterested about its second repetition ; and the conjuror's art proportionately sinks in their estimation. Having offered these general remarks, I will now invite the attention of my young friends to another batch of interesting tricks, which, with a little effort, they may succeed in exhibit- ing. TRICK 11.-A sudden and unexpected supply of feath- ers from under a silk handkerchief or cloth. PREPARATION. Have ready a good supply of plumes of feathers. They may be obtained from a fur or fancy store, or purchased there loose, and tied up so as to lie thin and flexible where you wish to place them. You may have at least four batches of them. The com- mon hackle feather will do, stitched round a thin piece of whale- bone. Teathers that are a little injured for sale as ornaments may be picked up at little cost. Take off your cont. You may then have one or more batches of feathers placed round each arm ; the lower point of the stem on which the feathers are fixed being near your wrist, and the top of each batch of feathers confined near your elbow by a slight worsted string. so that they do not stick out the coat sleave too much. or slip down together if two batches are con- ce led in the same sleave. Yon can have one or more batcher; 1 just within each side of your waistcoat, with the lower |