But, on opening out the arm, the flower must be drawn by the elastic cord up to the button-hole, through which it cannot pass, from its size.
Therefore, in entering the room where the audience await you, you have nothing to observe but to keep your face to the company. No one can perceive the cord, even at a little distance.
You take up your wand with your left hand, still keeping the left upper arm by your side; move your left hand and wand across the body to the right, then take the wand with your right hand, while your left hand remains across the body, with the hand on a level with the button-hole. Wave the wand to the left, and take it with the left hand again. Now wave the wand to the left, and on extending the left arm fully, you of course open it out, and the flower—under cover of the arm—is made to appear suddenly in the button-hole.
These three movements should be gracefully done, and with the happy medium between hurry and slowness.
IV.—WITH HANDKERCHIEFS.
THE MELTING EGG AND THE BEWITCHED HANDKERCHIEF.
A glass is shown, and can be examined by the company. Into it is put an egg, and the whole is covered with a handkerchief. To prove that the egg is really within the vessel, it may be heard striking its sides.
Mr. Hanky Panky stands at a distance and rubs a small coloured handkerchief up into a ball in his hands, when it is suddenly seen to become an egg.
Returning to the holder of the glass vase, the handkerchief is taken away, and, instead of the egg, a coloured handkerchief shown. The handkerchief can be examined.