BILLY BOYS TRICK CORNER

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1929, Page 20

BILLY BOYS TRICK CORNER

THE RUBBER BAND TRICK. - With the aid of an ordinary rubber band, it is possible to perform several amusing tricks. Here is one; Show the audience that the band is not specially prepared in any way; then slip it over the first and second flingers, as shown in sketch No. 1, and explain that you will instantly transfer it to the third and fourth fingers, without taking it off the hand, adding some “patter" of your own to emphasise the difficulty of the trick. Be careful to practise hard and get your trick perfect before you give a iiiiuiiutKr.iimiiinuiiihiHiHHHiiiiii'iHOuiiuniiiunHiHH,

lIUHf ItIH! Hl HUllltflHJ I U 1 public performance, because everything depends upon speed and dexterity. To transfer the band from the first pair of fingers to the second, pul] it as shown in the second sketch; then double over the fingers so that the third and fourth slip down into the loop, which is at that moment released and thus encircles all four - fingers. At the same moment, the third and fourth fingers are extended rapidly while the first and second fingers remain bent over, (dia. 3). The effect of this is to pull the band I off the doubled pair so that it simps round the other pair. The trick takes longer to describe than to perform and, once the knack has been acquired, the baud can be changed from one pair of fingers to the other in less than one second. A GIPSY AND A BULLDOG. A bulldog was killing a little terrier. ' People stood round looking at the j dying dog. A child was crying. i “It’s no use," said a man, “you I can’t make a bulldog leave go when I he’s locked his jaws." So they did nothing, and the bulldog held the little dog by the throat, squeezing the life out of him. Then a caravan, came down the road. A man sitting on the shaft saw what was happening. “Whoa, boy!" he called to his horse, and then he shouted into the van, “Mother! give us the poker.” He slipped the point into one corner of the bulldog’s mouth acroia its j tongue and out at the other side like a ’ bit, ° and levered the huge jaws apart, i Someone grabbed its collar, someone else picked up tho terrier and ran home. The gipsy rode on. May he seli his clothes-pega at a profit and never lose his golden earrings!