And now Dr. Pipp showed the coin to the little boy.
"You see it, young man?" he asked.
"Yes sir, yes sir," said the little boy, all excitement.
Ah, but the man was wiggling his hands through the air, saying,--
"Now you see it and now you don't."
And presto! he took that very same quarter which had been in his hand, out of--where do you think?--why, right out of the boy's mouth. That wasn't all, either, for next minute he took it out of his cap, then out of his ears. There had been one quarter before--now in his hand there were--five--shiny--quarters! It was a wonderful trick!
But now the strange man, Dr. Philemon Pipp, was speaking again.
"Now that you all understand the trick," he declared, "I will pefohm another foh youah entahtainment."
The funny thing about it was that no one understood it at all--except the Toyman.
"Do you really?" the boys asked him, and he replied,--