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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
441
The
trick
in
this
second
form
being
performed
by
wholly
different
means,
the
repetition
will
puzzle
even
those
who
knew,
or
believed
they
knew,
the
modus
operandi
in
the
first
case.
MY
GRANDMOTHER’S
NECKLACE.--The
trick
which
bears
this
title
is
also
a
very
old
one,
but
is
little
known
in
the
improved
form
we
are
about
to
describe.
In
its
older
shape
it
is
performed
with
three
perforated
wooden
balls
or
beads,
threaded
on
a
couple
of
tapes,
whose
ends
are
held
securely
by
two
of
the
spectators.
The
problem
is
to
detach
the
beads
without
breaking
the
tapes,
and
this
is
effected
as
follows:--The
tapes,
which
should
be
from
four
to
six
feet
in
length,
are
beforehand
doubled
in
the
middle,
and
slightly
joined
at
the
bend
of
each
with
fine
cotton
or
silk
of
the
same
colour.
The
tapes
are
thus
really
middle
to
middle,
though
to
a
casual
observer
they
appear
to
be
merely
laid
side
by
side.
The
performer
comes
forward
with
the
tapes,
thus
prepared,
thrown
over
his
left
arm
(taking
care
that
the
point
of
junction
shall
be
on
the
side
towards
his
body,
and
therefore
concealed),
and
with
the
beads
in
his
hands.
These
latter,
which
are
mere
wooden
balls,
from
one
to
two
inches
in
diameter,
perforated
so
as
to
freely
admit
the
tapes,
he
hands
for
examination.
When
they
are
returned,
he
threads
them
one
after
another
upon
the
tapes,
holding
the
latter
in
a
loop,
so
that
the
balls
may
sink
down
to
the
middle,
and
so
cover
the
point
of
junction.
He
next
requests
two
of
the
company
to
come
forward
and
hold
the
tapes,
and
hands
two
ends
to
the
one
and
two
to
the
other.
Each
person
believes
that
he
holds
one
end
of
each
tape,
though,
in
reality,
each
has
both
ends
of
the
same
tape.
The
performer
now
takes
from
each
one
of
the
ends
which
he
holds,
and
crossing
the
tapes
in
the
manner
shown
in
Fig.
157,
gives
to
each
the
end
which
the
other
previously
held.
Holding
a
hat
below
the
balls,
he
requests
each
person
to
pull
smartly
at
the
word
“three.”
The
word
of
command
is
given,
“One,
two,
Three!”
and
the
thread
breaking,
the
balls
fall
into
the
hat,
though
the
ends
of
the
tapes
still
remain
in
the
hands
of
the
holders.
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