You must have a piece of well-dried match-cord. Having lighted it by the candle, take a beer-glass, and hold the match to the edge of the glass; now have your finger ready wetted, and, when the glass is very hot, clap your finger to the hot place, and it will suddenly crack about a quarter of an inch downward; then keep the coal of the match at the like distance from the end of the crack; and, as it follows, so move your hand, and cut it screw-fashion, otherwise it will not hold together till you have it through to the bottom. When you have done it, and it is cold, take it by the foot, and turn it downwards: it will stretch so that you may put your finger between each cutting; then, when you turn it up again, you may drink a glass of beer from it, and not spill a drop.
THE END.
PRINTED BY G. H. DAVIDSON,
IRELAND YARD, DOCTORS’ COMMONS.
Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.
The original mid-paragraph positions of Illustrations have been retained in this eBook, as they often are crucial to understanding the explanations.
The original [Table of Contents] used “ib.” for page numbers that were the same as the preceding number, but this eBook uses the actual numbers.
Page [42]: “then put the” was printed as “then pu- the”. It has been changed to “put” to be consistent with “put out the sixpence” at the end of the same paragraph. Both probably should be “pull”.