3. IN CONCLUDING A TRICK.
It greatly adds to the efficiency of a trick to let it finish off with a sparkle, or some playful addition which gilds its exit.
For instance, in the trick of doubling the pocket-money, (7th trick,) the little by-play of finding, or rather pretending to find, some coins secreted in the sleeve of the young friend who has helped you, is sure to bring out a good-humored laugh at the termination of the trick. Again, in Trick 16, the additional fact of finding the watch in the loaf makes a lively termination of the performance of the obedient watch. In the 18th Trick, the glass of wine becoming solid might be used as a good finish to any trick where some friend has assisted in its exhibition.
You may often raise a good-humored laugh by appearing to swallow any object which you have used in a trick—as an orange, ball, egg, or dime—and afterwards bringing it out from your sleeve; or, by the use of Pass 1, to drive a coin up one sleeve, round the back of your neck, and down the other sleeve, into your right hand.
I not only consider such Amplifications of a trick lively and interesting, but I maintain this to be the best way of employing many secondary and short tricks wherever they can be brought in appropriately as offshoots of longer and more important ones.
TRICK 21.—The invisible hen: a very useful trick for supplying eggs for breakfast or dinner.
PREPARATION.
Fig. 20.
Position 1.Position 2.