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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 47 | THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. 37 quarters of an inch breadth, and join them. They will form a continuous strip of many feet in length. Roll this up carefully in a flat coil, as ribbons are rolled up. Let it make a coil about as large as the top of an egc-cup or an old-fas ioned hunting- watch. Leavo out of ,he innermost coil about an inch or more of that end of the paper, so that you can easily commence un- winding it from the centro of the coil. Procure a large dish or basketful of paper-shavings, which can be obtained at little cost from any bookbinder's or stationer's. Shaken out it will appear to be a large jaantity. As you wish it to appear that you have eaten a good portion of them, you can squeeze the remainder close together, and then thero will appear to be few left, and that your appetite has reason to be r :tisfied. Commence the trick by proclaiming you have a voracious ap- petite, so that you can make a meal off paper-shavings. Bend down over the plate, and take up handful after handful, pretend to munch them in your mouth, and make a faco 2S if swallowing them, and as you take up another handful, put out those previ- ously in your mouth, and put them aside. Having gone on with this as long as the spectators seem amused by it, at last, with your 1 ft hand, lip the prepare. ball of tissue aper into your mouth, managing to place towards your teeth the end you wish to catch hold of with your right hand, for pulling the strip out from your mouth. You will take care also not to open your teeth too widely, lest the whole coil or ball should come out all at once. Having got hold of the end, draw it slowly and gently forward. It will unroll to a length of twenty yards or moro in a continu- ous strip, much t the amusement of the spectators. When it has come to the end, you may remark : "I suppose we have come to a fault, as there is a solution of continuity here, just as the strongest cables break off,' so we must wait to pick up the end again, and go on next year, when the Great Eastern again goes out with its next Atlantic Cable." TRICK 15.-How to cut off a nose-of course without actual injury. PREPARATION. Have ready a piece of calico of light color, or a white apron, a sponge saturated with a little liquid of the color of blood- port-wine, or the juice of beet-root, will do; also two knives, resembling each other, the one of them whole, the other with a large notch in its blade, so that when placed over the nose it will |