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An excellent trick, well suited to follow the handkerchiefs through the paper tube.

Owing to the pulley arrangement and the sleeve vanish it is only suitable for a man.

Time Occupied.-About three minutes.

Effect.-A green silk handkerchief is tied by a corner to the corner of a yellow one, and the two rolled up together into a ball are placed into a glass standing in view of the audience. The performer then takes a red handkerchief, places it into a glass tube in full sight of the audience, when it suddenly disappears like a flash, and is found to be tied in between the two handkerchiefs in the glass, which have never been for an instant out of sight.

Requisites and Preparation.- A glass tumbler; a round glass tube about eight inches long and about two inches diameter (one of the shades of an incandescent gaslight will serve the purpose well); a diamond-shaped handkerchief with centre maroon red and border green; three square handkerchiefs of fine China silk with hemstitched borders.

One handkerchief is yellow, and has green border; the second is green and has yellow border; the third is a maroon red, and has green border. Buy three white silk handkerchiefs, cut off the borders, dye the centres and borders separately to the necessary colours with aniline dyes, and then sew the borders on again. The green border of the yellow handkerchief is opened (for the border of each handkerchief must be, as is usual with silk handkerchiefs, of a double thickness) about half an inch from one corner. The diamond-shaped handkerchief is tied by one corner by means of a very small knot to the corner near opening in border of the yellow handkerchief with green border. This

diamond-shaped one is now twisted in rope fashion and doubled, and by means of a penholder or pencil pushed into the opening of the green border of yellow handkerchief until it is entirely inside the border except for its green corner, which takes the place of the knot, and thus the yellow hand kerchief when held up looks an ordinary unprepared handkerchief, the small piece of the green border of the diamond-shaped red one which is exposed being the same colour as the border of the yellow one (Fig. 1).

A pull, which will be easily understood from the illustration (Fig. 2).

The strap is buckled round the left arm just above the elbow. The catgut end of the cord is passed across the back and down the right sleeve and the loop hooked over the cuff-link (Fig. 3) so as to be handy when required. The other end of the cord passes through a lady’s dress-eye sewn very strongly on to the back of trousers (Fig. 4) and terminates with the ring (C, in Fig. 2).

Just inside the left-hand trouser pocket a hook is firmly sewn with the hook end upwards. The length of the black silk cord must be so adjusted that when the coat is on and the catgut loop over the cuff-link, the ring at the other end rests against the eye at back of trousers (Fig. 4). This ensures perfect freedom of action, and is not likely to work out of position whilst performing other tricks.

Presentation of Trick.-The performer picks up the green and yellow handkerchiefs, and, showing them, says, “I have here two small silk handkerchiefs-one green, one yellow. I will tie these two together-so,”

taking care to tie the yellow corner of the green one to the small green corner of the red handkerchief which is inside the border of the yellow one, and then hold them up as in Fig. 5.

Proceed, “I will now place these two handkerchiefs into this tumbler.” Squeeze them up and place in tumbler, taking care that the audience can see well into your hands, to show that no change or palming has been effected (Fig.

6). Either place the glass upon your table in sight of the audience, or, better still if convenient, give it to someone to hold.

As you return take the loop off the link and slip it over the thumb and first finger of right hand, so that as you face the audience the loop is in position, but cannot be seen.

Then say, “I have here another small handkerchief-a red one this time.” A half turn to the left to pick up the red handkerchief from the table covers the left hand going under coat-tails and taking the ring at back of trousers and drawing it down and passing it on to the hook inside the left trouser pocket (Fig. 7). This makes the cord taut. Now the handkerchief is picked up with the left hand and shown by one corner being placed in right hand and one held in left, as the handkerchief is held in Fig. 1.

Next, saying, “I fold this handkerchief up so,”

place corner held in left also in right, which folds the handkerchief in half. Repeat this twice, when the hand kerchief will appear as in Fig. 8.

The loop being over the end of handkerchief, take the end in left hand and draw through until the loop is central (Fig. 9). Release both ends at the finish of this movement, so that the handkerchief is doubled over the loop and held in right hand.

The left hand now picks up the glass cylinder from the table and shows it, the performer saying, “I have here a glass tube, into which I place this handkerchief, so that you may see it the whole of the time.” The handkerchief is pushed into the centre of the cylinder by the first finger of right hand, and the first finger of left hand keeps it from going farther than the centre (Fig. 10).

Bring the hands to position of Fig.11. Asking the audience to keep a sharp look out upon the handkerchief in the tube, the per- former declares his intention of vanishing it in their full view and making it reappear in the glass upon the table with the other two handkerchiefs.

A sharp upward movement of the elbows causes the pull to draw the handkerchief out of the tube up the sleeve. Fig. 12 shows it just entering the sleeve,

and as the elbows are a little more extended the handkerchief quite disappears, and is drawn well up above the elbow (Fig. 13). In actual practice the handkerchief goes so quickly that it is impossible for the eye to follow it, and the illusion is perfect.

“Now we will see if I have been successful in passing it into the glass,” says the performer, and instantly takes the two handkerchiefs from the tumbler, and pulling them sharply apart by their extreme corners and shaking them out, the concealed red one is drawn out of its hiding-place and appears as in Fig. 14, convincing the audience that it has actually tied itself between the other two.