FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 47, 21 November 1907, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

Here is an ingenious trick, and one which is bound to furnish much entertainment at an evening party. Let one of the . company take a knife, and say that in a few niimites he- will make water flow out of- its handle. Thas, of course, will be impossible unless the person who is going to perform the trick has. contrived to hide a small moistened sponge behind his -ear. This being done, let him grasp the^handle of the knife and press it in such" a majnlner that -the spectators will think he is really trying to get .water out of it. While he is thus engaged his hand will naturally move, and he can gradually, bring it close to his ear.' He must then utter a few cabalistic, otherwise nonsensical ' phrases, after which he must ask one of the^ spectators to help him by drawing three crosses with his finger on his elbow. This request will naturally surprise everyone, and', as no one will immediately comply with it ' the magician, will have ample time to draw the tinysponge from behind his ear and place it firmly between his forefinger and middle finger. / All he has to do now is to hold the knife over a plate, for at once drops of wafer will begin to fall from it.