Humphrey's Mixed-Up Magic Trick by Betty G. Birney

Author:Betty G. Birney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2016-07-27T11:29:59+00:00

And my ear is much too small to hold a dime!

Miranda stroked my back with her finger and laughed. “Don’t worry, Humphrey,” she said. “It wasn’t really in your ear. It’s a trick.”

That made me feel a LOT-LOT-LOT better.

“My uncle Wally used to pull coins out of my ear when I was little,” she said. “When I got older, he taught me the trick.”

“How do you do it?” I asked.

“I had the coin hidden in my hand the whole time,” she said.

She did the trick again. This time, she showed me how she hid the dime between her fingers.

“It takes a lot of practice to learn a magic trick,” Miranda explained. “I probably tried this a hundred times.”

Wow! That’s a lot of practice.

“You can help me with the next trick,” she said.

She took out a deck of cards.

She shuffled them several times and told me, “This is to make sure the cards are all mixed up.”

Miranda set the deck of cards in front of me and spread them out facedown. “Pick a card,” she said. “Any card.”

I moved forward a few steps and sniffed one of the cards. It didn’t have much of a smell, so I moved along.

One of the cards smelled a little bit like berries. I don’t know why a card would smell like berries. Maybe someone was playing a card game and eating berries at the same time.

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