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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
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In
returning
to
your
table
you
take
the
opportunity
to
reverse
the
tube,
and
to
lay
it
down
in
such
a
manner
that
the
opposite
end
(i.e.,
that
with
the
false
top)
may
be
turned
towards
the
audience.
Some
performers
do
this
by
letting
the
tube
fall,
as
if
by
accident,
but
this
is,
in
our
opinion,
a
clumsy
and
inartistic
proceeding.
By
gesticulating
a
little
with
the
tube,
in
announcing
what
you
are
about
to
do,
so
that
the
audience
may,
little
by
little,
become
less
certain
as
to
which
end
you
have
just
opened,
and
by
carelessly
transferring
the
tube
from
the
one
hand
to
the
other
just
as
you
lay
it
on
the
table,
you
may
make
the
change
with
scarcely
a
chance
of
detection,
even
by
the
keenest
observer.
You
then
say,
“I
shall
now,
ladies
and
gentlemen,
make
the
plume
which
you
have
just
seen
me
place
in
this
tube
travel
into
the
shawl
which
that
gentleman
is
holding,
while
the
tube
will
be
completely
filled
with
objects
of
interest
for
the
juvenile
spectators.”
Here
you
may
possibly
hear,
or
if
not,
you
pretend
to
hear,
a
murmur
to
the
effect
that
the
feather
has
already
left
the
tube.
“Pardon
me,”
you
say,
“the
plume
has
not
yet
left
the
tube,
neither
will
it
do
so
until
I
give
the
command,”
and
so
saying,
you
take
off
the
cap,
leaving
on
the
false
top.
The
audience
see
the
little
bit
of
feather
within,
which
they
naturally
take
to
be
the
end
of
the
genuine
plume.
Again
you
replace
the
cap;
and
after
going
through
some
appropriate
magical
ceremony,
again
remove
it,
but
this
time
carrying
off
the
false
top
with
it.
(It
should
have
been
mentioned
that
the
tube
is
japanned
in
such
manner
that
the
eye
cannot
detect
any
difference
whether
the
false
top
is
on
or
off.)
Placing
the
cap,
with
the
false
top
within
it,
on
the
table,
you
come
forward
and
pour
the
sweets
from
the
tube,
while
the
shawl
is
on
examination
found
to
contain
the
plume.
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