. The Open court. 5 7 9 II 13 15 2 3 b 7 10 II 14 15 4 5 b 7 12 13 14 15 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 You will at once know the number which the person has in mindwhen he tells you in which horizontal rows it occurs, for all youhave to do is to add together the first numbers of these rows. Aclose inspection will tell you that 3 occurs in the two lines begin-ning with I and 2 ; the number 5 in the lines beginning with i and4, etc., and 15 in all four lines beginning with i, 2, 4 and 8. If we now replace the numbers with pictures, the arithmeticalclue will be concealed, and the audience will be thoroug
. The Open court. 5 7 9 II 13 15 2 3 b 7 10 II 14 15 4 5 b 7 12 13 14 15 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 You will at once know the number which the person has in mindwhen he tells you in which horizontal rows it occurs, for all youhave to do is to add together the first numbers of these rows. Aclose inspection will tell you that 3 occurs in the two lines begin-ning with I and 2 ; the number 5 in the lines beginning with i and4, etc., and 15 in all four lines beginning with i, 2, 4 and 8. If we now replace the numbers with pictures, the arithmeticalclue will be concealed, and the audience will be thoroughly mysti-fied. In order to assist the little magician, whose memory is notas yet well trained, we propose to replace the numbers with pic-tures which will readily suggest the numbers that they may be done by representing the four numbers i, 2, 4, and 8by wheels ; i by a wheelbarrow, which has one wheel; 2 by a bicycleor a cannon, which has tv/o wheels; 4 by a wagon, which has four (T^
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