PARLOUR MAGIC,
10.— Dancing Halfpence.
Halfpence may be made to dance by affixing, with wax, black silk to the surface of the coins', and letting the threads terminate in a loop, whlplj
may be placed over the right foot of the exhibitor, who stands at some little distance from the dancing coins, which are better deposited in a glass sugar-basin or large tumbler. In this way questions may be answered by the halfpence, each movement of the foot causing a corresponding jingle in the glass— one vibration representing "no," and two "yes." A little practice and ingenuity will furnish a number of amusing illusions which can be performed by these means. Indeed, no trick should be performed twice before the same spectators, but varied as occasion requires.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2088, 1 March 1894, Page 38
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127PARLOUR MAGIC, Otago Witness, Issue 2088, 1 March 1894, Page 38
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