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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 43 | THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. 33 While waving it mysteriously about, exclaim that the handker- chief must furnish you with some more feathers. Draw out of the left sleeve one of the plumes, shake the feathers out while taking off the handkerchief from this, which will be plume the third. Then, throwing your handkerchief over the hand, and clap- ping your hands together, (with the left over the right hand,) manage to catch hold of another point of a plume, and pull it out from your right sleeve while waving about your two hands with the handkerchief over them. You have now produced four, plumes. The exhibition may be continued to an increased number of plumes, if you have more concealed in your sleeves, or else- where; but four will probably be sufficient to manage at the commencement of your career as an amateur conjuror. TRICK 12.-Heads or Tails ? I shall now give directions for reproducing, before a jnvenile audience, a trick that will carry us back to the primitive style of conjuring in old times. I cannot say that there is anything very scientific or elevated in it, but, if neatly and adroitly exe- cuted, it will tell very well with a youthful audience. PREPARATION. You must take care that your table be so placed that none of the spectators can see behind yourself or the table. You must provide yourself with some young pet of the juveniles, such as a puppy, a kitten, or any other small pet. The performer must either have some little bag hanging under his coat-tails, or some provision for concealing the little animal behind him, or in a drawer before him ; so that there will be no chance of any of the audience seeing it before the proper time. He must have ready also a penny, or any coin. To begin the exhibition of the trick. Standing with all the nonchalance you can assume, and placing one or both your arms behind your back, you may say, "For a variety, I will challenge one of my young friends to come and try which of us will suc- ceed best in a few tosses of this penny." Induce some young person to come to the front of your ta- ble, and tell him to bring forward his hat. Ask him to tos3 first with the cent and put the hat over it, while you will guess "heads" or "tails." Say it shall be seen who is most suceess- |