PARLOUR MAGIC.

Otago Witness, Issue 2086, 15 February 1894, Page 38

PARLOUR MAGIC.

How to Exhibit Three Hands.

Whilst expatiating in company on feats of strength, ask the two strongest persons in the room to tie your thumbs together. Borrow a piece of cord of moderate thickness, and whilst engaging the company in conversation, contrive to slip the two first fingers of the right hand over the cord, so as to gain in clasping the left hand over tho right a space wide enough to extricate tho thumbs without difficulty. Having had your thumbs tied as closely as possible, solicit the loan of a hat, which must be placed over the hands. Younowshow the company thatyourtwohandsare tightly secured, but that you mean to astonish them with a third. In order to do so, slip the right hand adroitly out of the cord ; flourish it in the face of the audience, and then restore the thumbs to their former position. If cleverly managed, this little feat is one of the most inexplicable.

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