Wehman Bros.' new book of one hundred and fifty parlor tricks and games : home-made apparatus . his is the greatest accomplishment of the strong man in the circus, and one that has a particular charm for theboys. The men who do this never use the common steelnails. They use cast-iron ones, whose grain makes thembreak more easily. Nor are the nails bitten in two by theteeth, as is commonly supposed, but they are simply brokenby the strength of the fingers. To bite a nail in two put thethumb of your right hand under the nail near the middle,with the index finger on top of the nail at the right e
Wehman Bros.' new book of one hundred and fifty parlor tricks and games : home-made apparatus . his is the greatest accomplishment of the strong man in the circus, and one that has a particular charm for theboys. The men who do this never use the common steelnails. They use cast-iron ones, whose grain makes thembreak more easily. Nor are the nails bitten in two by theteeth, as is commonly supposed, but they are simply brokenby the strength of the fingers. To bite a nail in two put thethumb of your right hand under the nail near the middle,with the index finger on top of the nail at the right put the other end of the nail between your teeth on the TRIOKS 55 left side of the mouth. Push down sharply and stronglywith your index finger, and crack goes the nail. If you doit quickly your audience will think you have bitten it off,but you havent. Try this with a lead pencil, so as to getthe knack of it, before using the cast-iron nail. Hqw to Sit Without Chairs, This amusing feat can be performed by a number of per-sons arranging themselves as you see them in the illustration,. the last in the ring sitting on the knees of the first. Whilethe circle is being formed it would be advisable for the firstto be seated on a chair, which can be slipped away when thering is completed. This plan was adopted by French sol-diers in Algeria, when they found themselves in any placewhere the soil was marshy, and where it would have beenunwise for them to sit down on the ground. 56 TRIOKS To Lift a Man with Five Fingers* This is a schoolboys pastime, and consists in one indi-vidual being lifted ^.nd sustained by the fingers. Two operators put their index fingers under the personsshoes, two others place their fingers under each elbow, and
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