WHY THE TRICK FAILED.
A conjurer was exhibiting in Nashville, and proparod in tho usual way for the well-known trick of passing a tnarkod coin into the centre of nn uncut orange. He f >und an intelligent urchin, and promisod to pass him into the show providod ho ngrood t<> come on tho stage at a given signal. Of course tho urchin assonted. The boy was provided with a markod dollar, and when the curtain rose ho was in tho front row.
Tho professor proceeded to borrow a dollar in the audionce, markod it similarly to tho one in the urchin’s pocket, and, nftor seruo flourishes, passed it into the orange, from which ho extracted it.
‘Now,’ ho said, *l’m going to ask somo mem bor of the audience to step on tho at ago, and then I’ll pass the dollar into his pocket without going near him/
The youngßter stepped up; the conj urer made the usual flourishes. ‘Now, my boy,’ he said, ‘put your hand in your right-liand trousers pocket and give mo a dollar/ The b y looked sheepish, bnt he dived down. Then, to the horror of Hertz, he produced a handful of silver and said, ‘ I’ve only got ninety cents of it left, sir/
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Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222035, 11 January 1900, Page 2
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209WHY THE TRICK FAILED. Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222035, 11 January 1900, Page 2
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