Modern magic : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. . ree rings,and to pull against him, inorder to prove their ascertained, he passesthe upper ring of the threeinto the hand which alreadyholds the key ring, and linksit into the key ring, thusforming a second chain offour, of which in this casethe key is the the lowermost intothe key ring, he shows therings as in Fig. 240. Oncemore unlinking the lowerring, so that the four againappear as a single chain, he proceeds (apparently) to link all thetwelve together. This is effected as follows:— Taking two of
Modern magic : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. . ree rings,and to pull against him, inorder to prove their ascertained, he passesthe upper ring of the threeinto the hand which alreadyholds the key ring, and linksit into the key ring, thusforming a second chain offour, of which in this casethe key is the the lowermost intothe key ring, he shows therings as in Fig. 240. Oncemore unlinking the lowerring, so that the four againappear as a single chain, he proceeds (apparently) to link all thetwelve together. This is effected as follows:— Taking two of the single rings, the performer links them into thekey ring of the chain which he holds, He next links one of these samesingle rings into the key ring of the other chain, thus linking the twochains together at a distance of one ring from the end of the thus has ten rings joined. He now takes the two chains one ineach hand by the ends remotest from the point of juncture, immedi-ately after picking up and holding (one in each hand) the two remaining.
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