Explanation.—Run a fine black thread through a perforated egg, and fasten the other end of the thread to the middle of an ordinary handkerchief. (If you are skilful of hand, you can have a bent pin at the end of the thread and perform with a borrowed white handkerchief.)
You only pretend to put the egg within the glass vessel, and really place a small coloured handkerchief therein, while the egg remains attached to the large handkerchief.
You have an egg made of enamelled tin in your hand, which you conceal with a duplicate coloured handkerchief, as you state your intention of executing the double change of egg into handkerchief, and vice versâ.
As you speak, you dexterously stuff the little handkerchief into the egg, and in holding up the latter hide the aperture with your thumb. When you quickly lift the white handkerchief you carry away the egg, and discover the coloured one.
With practice, this is a most effective hanky-pankian feat.
TO UNDO A KNOTTED HANDKERCHIEF BY A SHAKE.
Mr. Panky takes up a soft silk handkerchief, and holding the ends in his hands throws the right hand end over the left, and pulls it through as if tying a knot. Again throwing the same end over the left, he passes the latter to one of the company to pull it.
Fig. 32.