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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 68 | 58 THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. cotton threads, having twisted two or three of them together, and united them in a loop, which you draw through the ring, and then slip the ring through the end of the loop. The ring will then hang suspended about a foot below the stick. The stick itself may be steadily fixed, resting on the back of two chairs at an elevation, so as to be easily seen by the company. When the ring has been thus suspended, set fire to the cotton about two inches above the ring; the flame will run upwards to- wards the stick; blow it out when about two inches from the stick, and the ring will remain pendulous in the air for some lit- tle time after the cotton has been burnt. The suspension is said to be caused by a filament, or fine thread of glass-which has been formed by the ashes of the cotton uni- ting with the heated salt, with which the cotton had been pre- pared. Now this trick would be too simple an experiment to be exhib- ited by itself; but coming as a finish to two other tricks, which have been performed with the same ring, the spectators Will give it honor due. I trust that I have satisfactorily established the assertion that a combination of congenial tricks will often tell more effectively than the same tricks would if exhibited without such combi- nation, - |