For this stunt you hold in your hand an ordinary candle in a common candlestick. State that you will put this candle in a place where everybody but one can see it, and that person will not be blindfolded, nor shall he be prevented from examining every part of the room to find it, neither shall the candle be hidden. This is done by placing the candle on his head, taking care that there is no mirror or looking-glass in the room.
3. A Coin Trick
Stand up before the children. Place a coin in each hand, and stretch out both hands as far from each other as possible. Now say, "Without bringing my hands together, I can cause both coins to come into the same hand." This is the way to do it. Place the coin on a table, then turn around and pick it up with the other hand.
4. The Prison Circle
The circle that makes you a prisoner. Draw a circle around a person, placed in the center of the room, so that he will not be able to jump out of it, though his legs be free. This is done with a piece of chalk. Draw the circle around his body.
5. Crawling into a Pint Bottle
How to crawl into a pint bottle. This is a play on words in every sense, so it is played by playing on words. Hold in your hand a little ink bottle, or a pint bottle, and state that you will ask some little boy to crawl into this bottle. Watch every movement, keep your eye upon him. Select some little boy, who has been instructed beforehand, and also rehearsed in private, to come forward and place the pint bottle in the center of the floor. He is told to go out of that room and think how it can be done, and when he is ready to do it, he is to knock on the door. You then open the door, and he crawls into the room on all fours. This is crawling into the pint bottle.
6. Candies Under the Hat
Place three candies on the table about ten inches apart, and cover each with a hat. Announce that you will now place these three candies under one hat without touching but one hat. Look wise and approach the hats with a thoughtful and solemn face, waving your hand over them and muttering some incoherent words like "Hocus-pocus," and then call upon three boys to lift the hats to see if the sweets are yet there; after they have lifted the hats, quietly pick up the three candies, place them in your mouth, and put a hat on your head, and say, "The three candies are now all under one hat, and I touched only one of the three hats." You can add a little variation to this game if you so desire by saying after you have placed the candies under the three hats, "On second thought I will turn my back, and when I do so, I would like some one to rearrange the candies under the hats." You have previously arranged with one of the boys to do this service. He appears to be playing the joke on you by eating the candies himself. When you look under the hats you will find nothing there, but when you turn around, you quietly put one of the hats on his head so the candies are now all under one hat.
7. Will Tell the Date