THE WONDERFUL HAT.
Place three pieces of bread, or other eatable, at a little distance from each other on a table, and cover each with a hat; you then take up the first hat, and removing the bread, put it into your mouth, and let your company see that you swallow it; then raise the second hat, and eat the bread which was under that, and do the same with the third. Having eaten the three pieces, give any person in company liberty to choose under which hat he would wish those three pieces of bread to be; when he has made choice of one of the hats, put it on your head, and ask him if he does not think that they are under it.