Hanky Panky

by Wiljalba Frikell

TO CUT THE BRAID OF A BUTTONHOLE WITHOUT LEAVING A MARK.

Fig. 23.

Tie the ends of two feet of string together. Put it through a button-hole of your coat (or the ring of a key in the door); stick one thumb in each end, and each little finger in the upper string of the other hand. Draw out the hands, and present the figure traced in the illustration.

Let go with the right thumb and left little finger, and thrust your hands quickly apart, when you will seem to have pulled the string through the braid of the button-hole, and yet there will be no trace of the passage. It is best, when you let go with the right thumb, to change the string from the right little finger to it.