FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 16, 18 April 1907, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

Choose a rich dress of corded stuff, My first you'll hold then sure enough ; - When high winds blow o'er roof amd wall My second has a chance to fall — My whole's a thing that crawls and creeps, Or hides away and snugly sleeps. Answer— Reptile. Not long ago I saw a man - g& Who looked to me peculiar ; His left hand held a cobbler's tool, With which we are all familiar. r And a cutting tool was in his right, Well known to many nations ; But all at once the scene was changed To useful publications. Answer— Almanacs (awl-man-axe).

A little dexterous sleight of hand is always amusing. You ask a friend to lend you a cigarette paper, as you find you have not got one yourself, and having been furnished ■ with one you proceed to tear it up, roll the small pieces into a ball, and then unroll 4;hem, showing the cigarette paper made whole once mare. H To do this trick you must have prepared yourself with a whole cigarette paper beforehand, and must keep this, rolled up into a ball, in the right pocket of your waistcoat. When you ask for a cigarette paper, you at the same time insert your fingers into your waistcoat pocket as "though loolAng for one there, and take out the prepared ball, .holding it between the tips of the first and second fingers, where it will not life seen by the audience if -you are careful how you hold your hand. 'When the other paper has been torn up, and while rolling the pieces into a ball, you change that, ball for the one you have ready, holding the ball cf torn' pieces in the position previously oc^cuipTed by the ball of whole paper. When you are about to unroll the ball -you put your fingers quite naturally up to your lips to moisten' them, and in. so doing get the ball of torn paper into your mouth. - You will then unroll the . whole ball of paper and hand ■ it round for inspection. * The most effective « part of this trick comes when you have rolled' the torn paper into a ball, for you can at this poimt press the ball of whole paper against the ball of torn paper between the first finger and thumb, and hold them up to the' audience, who see that your bands are perfectly'- empjiy and never suspect, that what appears to be one ball of paper is really made up of two balls.