PAMLOUR MAGIC.

Observer, Volume 5, Issue 120, 30 December 1882, Page 248

PAMLOUR MAGIC.

ADVANTAGEOUS WAGEB,

Request a lady to lend you a watch. Examine it and give a guess as to its value j then offer to lay the owner a wager, considerably below the real value of the watch, that she will not answer to three questions which you will put to her consecutively, " My^watch." Show her the watch, and say, " What is this which I hold in mj hand ?" she, of course, will not fail to reply, "My watch." Next present to her notice some other object, repeating the same question. If she names the object you present she loses the wager, but if ehe is on her guard, and remembering her stake, she ' says, "My watch," she must, of course, win j and you, therefore, to divert her attention, should observe to her, " You are certain to win the state, but supposing I lose, what will you give me ?" and if, confident of success, she replies, for the third time, " My watch," then take it, and leave her the wager agreed on. "MA&ICAI, CABDB. To perform this experiment, you must observe that there are many letters which may be transposed into others, without the alteration being very apparent ; for instance, a may be turned into d, the c into c, a, d, g, o, or q, the i into 5, d, or j, the I into t, the o into a, d, g f or q, the v into y, &c, &c. Take a number of cards, suppose twenty, on one of them write with sympathetic ink made of" the juice of lemons, or a solution of sal-ammoniac, the word law, but do not. join the letters, and on another card, with the same ink, the words old-woman j by holding them before the fire for a short time, the writing will become visible. Next .alter (with the same ( ink) the a in the word law into d, place an o before the I, and add oman after the w, and the word will thus be turned into old-woman. Allow these alterations to remain, invisible, that is, do not hold the card before the fire, and then write on the other cards whatever you think proper. Present the cards to two persons, and contrive to force one to take the word law, and the other, the words old-woman, and tell the former that the .word law shall vanish, and that words like those written on the other card be substituted for it ; to show them that you will not change the cards, request each one to write his? name on the back of the card which he drew ; you then place the cards together, and hold them before the fire, as if for the purpose of drying the names just writteniand the action of the fire will bring out the dormant powers of the sympathetic ink, and the word lawwill be changed into old-woman, as you foretold,

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