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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
491
The
uses
to
which
the
changing
cover
may
be
put
are
very
numerous.
The
following
is
an
instance
of
a
rather
original
application
of
it,
which
produces
a
capital
effect.
We
will
suppose
that
the
performer
has
executed
a
trick
in
which
he
has
availed
himself
of
the
assistance
of
some
juvenile
member
of
the
audience,
and
that
an
apple
has
been
one
of
the
“properties”
of
the
trick.
The
trick
being
concluded,
the
professor
asks
his
temporary
assistant
whether
he
would
like
to
have
the
apple,
and
is
of
course
eagerly
answered
in
the
affirmative.
“Very
well,”
says
the
professor,
“you
shall
have
it;
but
you
must
first
earn
it
by
a
little
display
of
dexterity.
I
will
put
it
under
this
cover.”
He
suits
the
action
to
the
word.
“Now
I
am
going
to
say,
One,
two,
three!
At
the
word
‘Three’
I
shall
raise
the
cover,
and
you
must
try
to
snatch
the
apple
before
I
replace
it.
If
you
can
catch
the
apple
in
this
manner
three
times
in
succession,
it
is
yours;
but
on
one
further
condition,
that
you
eat
it
at
once
here
upon
the
stage.”
The
conditions
are
readily
accepted.
“One,
two,
three!”
cries
the
professor,
raising
the
cover
and
disclosing
the
apple,
which
is
instantly
snatched
up.
A
second
time
the
process
is
gone
through,
with
a
like
result.
“You
mean
to
win,
I
can
see,”
remarks
the
performer.
“Now,
once
more,
and
the
apple
will
be
yours;
but
I
warn
you
I
shall
be
rather
quicker
this
time.
One!
two!!
three!!!”
The
eager
boy
springs
forward,
and
clutches--not
the
apple,
but
a
Spanish
onion,
which
had
been
placed
in
the
second
compartment
of
the
cover.
“You
have
won,
sir,”
says
the
professor,
pretending
not
to
notice
the
change;
“but
don’t
forget
the
second
part
of
your
bargain.
You
are
to
eat
it
at
once,
before
leaving
the
stage.”
We
will
leave
to
the
imagination
of
the
reader
the
discomfiture
of
the
victim,
and
the
amusement
of
the
spectators;
also
the
subsequent
magical
processes
by
which
the
transformed
apple
may
be
restored
to
its
original
and
more
fragrant
condition.
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