Modern magic : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. . ell, and theblack ball by the red shell, the effect to thespectator is as if the two balls had changed places. By leaving alternately the one or the other shell over itsrespective vase, the ball in the opposite vase being left uncoveied,the vases may be made to appear as if both containing red balls orboth black balls, the genuir^ balls l:einsc finally again exhibited asat first. There is yet another form of ball-box, also frequently worked inpairs, and designed to simulate the apparent passage of a ball fromthe one box to the othe
Modern magic : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. . ell, and theblack ball by the red shell, the effect to thespectator is as if the two balls had changed places. By leaving alternately the one or the other shell over itsrespective vase, the ball in the opposite vase being left uncoveied,the vases may be made to appear as if both containing red balls orboth black balls, the genuir^ balls l:einsc finally again exhibited asat first. There is yet another form of ball-box, also frequently worked inpairs, and designed to simulate the apparent passage of a ball fromthe one box to the other. The vase in this case consists of two partsonly, the vase proper a, and the cover b, but the latter is of such aheight as to completely contain the ball, and of such a size internally,that, if the ball be jerked up into the cover, it will not again fall,unless a sifght shake be used to displace it. (See Fig. 129.) Eachvase has its own ball, and the mode of use is as follows :—One ofthe. vases is prepared beforehand by jerking up the ball into the cover*. 298 MODERN MAGIC. which may then be removed, showing the vase apparently empty ; orboth may be first shown empty, and the ball then introduced secretlyunder the cover, after the manner of thecups and balls. The remaining vase and ballare offered for inspection, and when they arereturned, the ball is placed within and coveredover, after which the closed vase is placedupon the table; but in the act of doing thisthe performer gives the apparatus a slight up-ward jerk, thereby causing the ball thereinto rise into the cover, where it remains. Thesecond vase is once more shown empty j butin replacing it on the table, the performer putsit down sharply, thereby causing the ball todrop from the cover into the cup. He noworders the ball, which the company have seenplaced in the first vase, to pass invisibly intoihe second j and on again opening the two,this transposition will appear to have takenplace, and by a repetition of the pro
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