Parlour Magic

by Unknown

TO BRING A PERSON DOWN UPON A FEATHER.

This is a practical pun:—You desire any one to stand on a chair or table, and you tell him that, notwithstanding his weight, you will bring him down upon a feather. You then leave the room, and procuring a feather from a feather-bed, you give it to him, and tell him you have performed your promise,—that you engaged to bring him down upon a feather, which you have done; for there is the feather, and, if he looks, he’ll find down upon it.