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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 57 | THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. 47 Fig. 18 represents the hands as they appear to the performer himself, holding the tape with the thumb and forefinger at the crossings of the tape at y and z, while the outward sides of each loop are to be held by the three other fingers of each hand. FIG. 17. FIG. 18. Left Hand, Right Hand. D it 11p A x y N IC B x y 2 C B To proceed with the trick : Holding your hands in this posi- tion, (Fig. 18,) you must request one of the spectators to cut through the tape at x, but just as he is about to do so, you must quickly lower your hands two or three inches, and then raise them again. This movement will conceal the following opera- tion. You drop the part (B) of the tape held in your right hand, and at the same moment pick up with that hand the other tape marked C. This will bring the portion of tape from C to D, so that it now becomes the transverse tape, substituted in place of the tape marked x, and your young friend will then cut it-instead of the original tape marked x-without being aware tbat he is so doing. When the tape has been cut through, you can put your hands near together, allowing the two ends of the little piece of the |