Wehman Bros.' new book of one hundred and fifty parlor tricks and games : home-made apparatus . ont, effectually con-cealing it. For example of working: Load one end with acard; stick flap down. When performing force similar card;show envelope empty (that is to say, opposite side to the onecontaining card); seal down flap; vanish card by any meansyour fancy may suggest. Eeverse the envelope, unperceivedof course, and with a knife cut open and produce the card. You might even get one of the audience to address theenvelope to some imaginary spirit, thus indirectly callingattention to the fact th
Wehman Bros.' new book of one hundred and fifty parlor tricks and games : home-made apparatus . ont, effectually con-cealing it. For example of working: Load one end with acard; stick flap down. When performing force similar card;show envelope empty (that is to say, opposite side to the onecontaining card); seal down flap; vanish card by any meansyour fancy may suggest. Eeverse the envelope, unperceivedof course, and with a knife cut open and produce the card. You might even get one of the audience to address theenvelope to some imaginary spirit, thus indirectly callingattention to the fact that there are not two envelopes stucktogether face to face. 92 TRIOKS A Thanksgiving-Day Gam^* No doubt many of our little readers will hardly care toindulge in violent exercise after eating tlieii^ fill of Thanks-giving cheer, and often, after the turkey has been utterlywrecked, the last of the dessert consumed, and every littlejacket has grown uncomfortably tight, there comes the ques-tion, What shall we do to have some fun? Here is away to have some fun that does not demand too much exer-. tion, and still provides a form of amusement in keeping withthe day: Cut out the picture of the turkeys head, leaving about aninch of margin on each side. Get two pieces of wood, ortwo boxes—cigar boxes will do—and place them side byside so they are just about as far apart as the width of thepicture. Now pin the picture to the ends of the boxes, bythe margin, placing one pin in each corner, so that thepicture is suspended between the boxes with nothing behindit. Place this in the centre of the table, and exactly beforeit, on the edge of the table, lay a book just thick enough sothat the upper side is about level with the centre of thepicture. TRIOKS 93 On the edge of the book lay a toothpick and aim it at oneof the turkeys heads. Take a pencil and, holding one endin your left hand, draw back the other end so that you cansnap it forward and strike the end of the toothpick. Thiswill fly f
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