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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 73 | THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. 63 Swell out the cloak with your left hand, and at tho same timo thrust up the head from the pocket. It will appear as if the whole figure stood before them. Then say : "I fear, dear friend, I have trespassed by abridging your tour. You can hardly have traversed Algeria, crossed the mountains of the moon, or found the birthplace of the Nile; and no one returns now-a-days without some such marvel to relate. I will let you depart again. As some people say to troublesomo visitors 'You may depart now ; please to call again to-mor- row.'' Repeat the manoeuvre, as before, of secreting the head. Then exclaim : "Alas! he is gone in earnest, like the sojourner of a day (with mock pathos.) When we havo lost him, we feel our loneliness." Fold up sorrowfully the cloak of the departed, and so conclude the trick. TRICK 26.-The Shower of Money. A dozen silver coins, or pennies, will be equally useful in ex- hibiting this trick ; but some fictitious coin, in color rosembling gold, will perhaps more effectively delight those who are charmed by the yellow glitter of the precious metal. The performer must have provided himself with so many of these in his left hand as he purposes to produce at the end of the trick, and two of the same coin also must be concealed in his right palm. He must further borrow a hat from one of the company. The imagination of the spectators having been excited by tho expectation of beholding a shower of money, the adept in sleight- of-hand, keeping one of the two coins in his right hand con- cealed, must advance the other còin to the end of his forefinger and thumb, while he pretends to pick a coin out of the candle, or of the rim of a hat, or from a lady's fan or shoulder, or may pretend to clutch a coin floating in the air. As he brings away his prize, ho may rattle it against the other coin concealed in his right hand. Then, making Pass 1, he may pretend to pass it into the hat, being careful precisely at the same moment to drop, audibly, a coin from his left hand into the hat which he holds in that hand. Let him tell the audience to keep count how many he collects: it will rather distract their attention. IIo can continuo this pleasant appearance of acquiring wealth for ten minutes, or aslong as ho can deviso various methods of appearing to clutch it, till tho number with which he stored his left hand is exhausted. Ho may then request some one to count out, audibly, into a |