
Then borrow two hats and place over the two balls farthest from you, and put the other two balls one on top of each hat. Take a page of a newspaper and tear it into quarters, rolling each piece into a ball about the size of a golf-ball and placing them on the floor in a quadrangle about eighteen inches apart. Now say, Perhaps some of you can’t see how it is done even now, probably because the balls are too small.

Proceed as before, but after counting one, and closing the right hand, stop, as if someone had questioned the move, open the right hand and show that there is only one pellet there, close the hand and finish as before. Throw it under some piece of furniture or out of the window, and immediately opening the right hand, throw the three pellets on the chair.Ĭontinue, Didn’t you catch it? I’ll do it again.

Pick up the third and say : This one we will send on its travels.

Then showing the right hand empty, pick up a pellet with the thumb and finger of the left and place it in the right, saying, one, and immediately closing the hand. Roll up three paper pellets about the size of a pea and throw them on a table or chair seat where all can see them. THE following is a good impromptu combination that can be done anywhere, no preparation being necessary.
