Modern magic : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. . ies the secret of thetrick, is simply a ringwith a cut or opening,a, in it. For useupon a public stage,where the performeris at a considerabledistance from his audience, there may be a gap of an eighth of an inchbetween the ends, but for drawing-room use, they should just toucheach other. Some rings are made to clip like an ear-ring, and X^^MJ^-^some have the opening cut dia-gonally instead of square, but thesimple square cut is, in our ownopinion, the best. We shall, in the first place,describe the trick as performedwith the set o
Modern magic : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. . ies the secret of thetrick, is simply a ringwith a cut or opening,a, in it. For useupon a public stage,where the performeris at a considerabledistance from his audience, there may be a gap of an eighth of an inchbetween the ends, but for drawing-room use, they should just toucheach other. Some rings are made to clip like an ear-ring, and X^^MJ^-^some have the opening cut dia-gonally instead of square, but thesimple square cut is, in our ownopinion, the best. We shall, in the first place,describe the trick as performedwith the set of eight rings abovementioned, afterwards noticingthe more elaborate performancewith twelve. We must premise,however, that the manipulation ofthe rings admits of almost infinitevariation, and that the practice ofperformers differs greatly as tothe mode of working them. The performer comes forward holding the eight rings in his lefthand, arranged as follows. First (, innermost), comes the set ofthreej then the key* ring (the opening uppermost in the hand),. Fig. 237. MODhKi\ MAGIC*
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