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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 46 | 36 THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. interval, place the-hat on the table, and with some little cere- mony take out the real pancakes or plum-cake. Let it be cut up and.handed round to the juveniles who may be present. REMARKS. A more finished or surer arrangement for holding the dough, etc., can be made with a tin apparatus, which can be prepared by any tinman, upon the same principle as the gallipots, taking care not to have it made larger than the inside of a youth's hat. An amateur can render a common table more suitable for con- Fig. 25. cealing any little object he wishes to have secreted, by placing three or four tumblers under each end of a plank, about the length to extend across the table, and throwing any common cloth over the board and table, or a kitchen table, covered with a cloth, having a drawer pulled out about six inches, will furnish a very good conjuror's table. It is well to have the table rather broad, so as to keep the spectators at a sufficient distance. TRICK 14.-TO EAT A DISH OF PAPER SHAVINGS, AND DRAW THEM OUT OF YOUR MOUTH LIKE AN ATLANTIC CABLE. PREPARATION. Procure three or four yards of the thinnest tissue paper of va- rious colors. Cut these up in strips of half an inch or three- |