[7] This last bit of patter is a plagiarism from somebody or other, I rather think the late Dr. Lynn.
CULTURE EXTRAORDINARY
The root-idea of this item must be credited to Signor Antonio Molini, the inventor of the very effective stage trick known as Le Souper du Diable. The principle on which that trick is worked is so subtle, and withal so simple, that it is surprising that it has not long since been applied to the production of less bulky objects than the tablecloth, eatables and drinkables which figure in the Satanic supper. The following is an application of the Signor Molini’s idea on a scale better adapted to the drawing room.
Requisites.
(1) Three zinc or zinc-lined tubes, as a, b, c, in Fig. 15, ranging in height from about three inches upwards, and graduated in size so as to fit easily one within the other.
Fig. 15
(2) Three balls, one red and two white, of such diameter as to pass easily through the narrowest tube. Two smaller balls, one red and one white, about half an inch in diameter.
(3) A box of matches.