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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 45 | THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. 35 taking off the attention of the spectators by pretending to ar- rang: the articles on your table, slip the prepared pa .cakes or plum-cake into the hat. Unobserved, also place the smaller gallipot in the hat, and while doing so, if requisite, add some remorli, such as: "Please to shut, or op^n, that `oor." or any word: that will draw off the attention of the sp ctators from what you ero Coin, You must next, vith S me parade, mix the fluont loug? with the sugar and currants, in t'.o lar yer gallipot. It must be fluent enough to pour out lovly, upare .tly into the hiso, but really into the smaller gallipot, which has been already nonccaled inside the. hat. Shov 'ou have imptied the lar wor all but a little ; then, placing it he sn .ller galliprit a in empty the very last of it, und press the larger callipot firmly i wn over the smaller onn. Then, inl it, lift th smalle gallipot also, with its contents, whil you ippear only to talio bacl: the larger galli- pot. Remove the gollipots, us supposed t be empte, out of sight. "Now, l.d.en und ;entlemen, I must request your pa- tience a few minutes for the brocess of cooking.' " Put two or three candles near one wother, and move the hat at a safe dis- tance above them for W or thr minutes, making in the mean- time any langhabl. remarks that may occur to you, such as : " My young friends will find this ? capital way of supplying themselves with a delicat dish when hoy havs lost their pud- dings from being in the black books of their teacher or parents," ,FIG, 9. or any similar humorous remark; but take care not to burn the hat whilst the (supposed) cooking is going on. After a short |