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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 66 | 56 THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. Take out that egg ; shake the bag well, as if it were quits empty : and then, thrusting both your hands into tho interior corners at A and B, turn the bag inside out; bring it to position 2, ready to re-commence bringing out the other eggs one by one, as long as the spectators are interested. While you hold tho bag in position 2, you can safely let any young person feel to the bottom of the bag, as he will not be likely to suspect the eggs are towards the top of the bag on tho side near to yourself. The same bag may be used also much to the amusement of children, by your loading it with walnuts, chesnuts, small ap- ples, or pears, or any bon-bon of about the size of an eggi and then allowing the children, one by one, to feel in your lucky bag for what you take care they shall find in their successive searches. A SERIES OF TRICKS, 22, 23, 24.-The chief agent being a plain gold ring. PREPARATION. You must be provided with a small thin wire pointed at both ends, which, being bent round, will resemble an ordinary plain gold ring. You must also have on your table an orange or a lemon, a box or bowl, a tumbler, and a dessert-knife. And you must have four or five needlefuls of thick cotton, which have becn previously steeped for about an hour in a wine- glass of water, with a teaspoonful of salt in it; and have been afterwards completely dried, so as to burn easily. TRICK 22. Having the fictitious ring in the palm of your hand, com- mence by requesting any lady present to oblige you by lending you a plain gold ring, and borrow also from some gentleman a colored silk handkerchief. Appear to place the borrowed ring in that handkerchief, but in reality place in it the rounded ficti- tious ring. Doubling tho centre of the handkerchief round it, request some gentleman to hold it, so as to be sure he has got the ring in the handkerchief-while you fetch a slight cord to fasten it. While going to your table to fetch this cord, you slip the real ring into a slit in the orange which you had prepared, and which closes readily over it. You then tie the cord round the handkerchief, about two inches from the ring, and. calling |