THE PENETRATIVE PENNY.
(Sent in by Kathleen Warren, 122, Disraeli Street, Gisborne.)
I To pass a penny through a hole much smaller than itself seems an impossiI bility, but it can be done quite easily. | Take a, piece of paper and cut from it a circular hole just a trifle less in size than a halfpenny, which you probably know measures an inch across. Through this hole you are requested to pass the penny without tearing the paper or touching the coin after placing it 011 the paper. To do it, fold, the paper so that the crease will cross the exact centre of tlie hole, and place a penny in the fold. Pick up the paper and let the coin run down ,iiii j the hole, part of it projecting below. Then bend the corners of the fold slightly upwards. This will lengthen tlie j opening and if the movement is continued I tlie coin will drop through without I damaging the paper in any way. 1
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 249, 21 October 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)
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