TWO TRICKS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 281, 26 November 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)

TWO TRICKS.

THOUGHT REAPING. (Scut in by Jessie Meikle, Astlcy Avenue, New Lynn.) Hand a piece of paper and pencil to a friend and say, "I'm going out of the room, and while I'm gone write something on the paper and put it in your pocket. When I come back, on another piece of paper I'll write exactly the same as you." When your friend has written something and put it in her pocket you stalk in, looking very wise, and on a piece of paper you write, "Exactly the same as you." Then give it to your friend-, and she will see that you have written what you said you would.

UNDER THE TABLE. Here is a clever little trick for your next party. Remove the tablecloth and hand a penny to one of your guests, saying, "I want you to spin the coin on the table and I will toll you whether it falls heads or tails." You thereupon get under the table and the spinning commences. "Heads" you cry—and, to the surprise of the audience you arc right. The coin is spun. "Tails!" you cry. Again you tiro right. And no matter how the coin is spun you arc always right. Amazing! Well, not quite so amazing as it appears. You see, you have an accomplice who lifts his right foot off the ground when the coin falls heads, and his left foot when it falls tails.

SWALLOW IN THE BELFRY

"Curfew shall not ring to-night!" cried tlic heroine whose lover was to bo killed at curlew, and she muffled the bell with her body. A female adopted the same tactics to stop a bell ringing in Yorkshire recently. She was a swallow, and perhaps the iirst nest was destroyed this year; all the good sites had already been taken, and when house hunting, rather late in the year, the only safe place she could lind was the church in Goole cemetery. The lie 11 might have disturbed her babies, so she attached her nest to the boll rope just where it passes through a bole in the ceiling of the church porch, yhe thought that no Yorkshireman would dash mother and babies to the ground, and she was right. It has been decreed that the bell shall not be tolled till the young birds have flown away over the sea to Africa.