The play room; or, In-door games for boys and girls; a complete collection of home recreations including round game, forfeits, slate and board games, numerous table and toy games, by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: New York, Dick & Fitzgerald

TRICKS REQUIRING SIMPLE APPARATUS.

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add D and you have five. Take off D and substitute B, which will give you six. So you go on weaving them into all kiuds of fantastic shapes. You must always conceal the joint in A with your thumb, and contrive as often as you can to have one at least of the rings D at liberty. This is a capital trick, and may be diversified to any extent, especially if the number of rings is increased.

THE BURNED HANDKERCHIEF RESTORED.

Get a flat-topped stand, such as is shown at A, and make a neat pasteboard or tin cover, as is seen at C, and be sure to ornament it with various showy devices. The cover must slip very easily over the stan-d. Cut a flat circular plate, B, the least bit wider than the top'of A, and just large enough to slip easily into C. Here is ail your apparatus.

Before you show this trick, place in your pocket a piece of white rag that looks like a handkerchief. Borrow a clean white cambric handkerchief from among the audience, and just before you receive it, conceal in your hand the white rag. Have the apparatus ready on a side-table, with the movable plate laid on the stand. Lay the handkerchief on the plate, place the cover Qver the handkerchief, and press it down with a smart slap.

Now take off the cover, squeezing it well so as to take up the plate as you do so; put your hand into it as if about to pull out the handkerchief, and sub'stitute in its stead the white rag. Lay the rag on the stand, apply a match to it, and let it burn to aslies. Replace the cover on the stand, and press it down. ^ Then loosen the grasp of the hand and the plate wiU fall on the stand, completely concealing the ashes. Lift the cover gently, when the handkerciiief will fall upon the plate, and may be restored unhurt to the owner.

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