47. IT LOOKS BLACK
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Add thirteen more strokes, and make—what?
48. THE CORONER’S CHOICE
Can a coroner, after signing his name, write his official position in more ways than one?
HOW MANY PIPS?
Here is a good and simple card trick. Ask anyone to choose three cards from a pack, and to place them face downwards on the table. Then, beginning to count with the number of pips on each card laid down, let him place other cards upon these, one heap at a time, until in every case he counts up to 15, adding mentally 1 as he places down each card.
When he has completed the three heaps, take from him the remaining cards, and count them. Their number, less 4, will always be the number of pips on the three chosen cards. An ace counts 11, and a court card 10.