The padlock is open!
For your kindness in assisting me, sir, you may retain the drawing. You have watched me so closely that I see you have imbibed the art, and henceforth all the doors of society are open to you.
We borrow from The Magician’s Own Book the illustration of a magic padlock. In the present case, the instrument contains a powerful spring which forces the key-bolt back out of the socket of the pin, and is set in action by pressure on one of the nail heads adorning the plate. This is done when the second testing of the lock is made. You keep up the chatter as long as the time required for the spring to work.
PRIMITIVE WOLF TRAP.
A double circular stockade, or palisade, is erected too high for a wolf to leap over, with one entrance, closed by a gate.
Fig. 62.
This is open, and the animal, hearing a tied-up sheep bleating in the centre, passes in and goes the round, seeking the entrance to the prey, when he pushes the gate to, and is imprisoned till morning.
THE CELEBRATED HONEY-BEE TRICK.
Get possession of the queen bee, and confine her by a hair or fine silken thread by a running noose fast around her corslet.