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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 56 | 46 THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. You may move about the spools 2 and 3, to show how the tape runs through them, but you must not nove spool 1. You may then say that the puzzle is to get the spools of the tapes while the four ends are held firmly in the hands of four persons. Appoint four persons to hold them, and you may then say: "To make doubly sure, I will tie one of the ends at A to one of the ends at B with (the first half of) a knot." It does not signify which ends you take to do this, FO that you take ono A and one B. I will now pull these two ends so tight that it draw the three spools together, and also tighten all along one sido of them.' Then, while four persons hold firmly the extreme ends cf the Fig. 16. 2 3 B 1 A 13 tapes, you must take shorter hold of the two A's with your left hand, (where it is marked by a dottedline, Fig. 16,) and also take hold of the other tapes where a dotted line is marked on them towards B. Then drawing your arms wider apart, so as to pull the tapes steadily, the spools or balls will fall to the ground with- out passing over the ends of the tapes. TRICK 20.-To restore a tape whole after it has been cut in the middle. PREPARATION. Have five or six yards of tape about three-quarters of an inch broad. Take half the length in each hand. You will be able to show the audience that you are about to cut it in the middle, by hold- ing it in two loops of equal length. Call their attention point- edly to the equal division of the full length. The tape will thus appear to the performer in the position represented in Fig. 17. Observe the tape A crosses at Z the tape B on the side next to the performer, whereas the tape D is to cross the tape y on the side farthest from him. |