The Fox then quickly took the cash
Which they had posted handy,
And running off, he cried to them,
“Now wasn’t that a dandy?”
And thus it is with lots of Rogues
As through this world they strut,
Their wits are oft so keen and sharp,
It’s but themselves they cut.
The Raised Hand. Tell some person to pick up a coin in one hand and hold that hand above his head while he counts twenty, aloud and slowly. Before the person picks up the coin, you leave the room and return just after he finishes counting, but not so soon that you can see in which hand he had the coin. Nevertheless you tell him correctly every time, which hand he had raised. The way this trick is done, is exceedingly simple. On entering the room, after the person has counted twenty you look at his hand. The one which he has raised above his head will be white, as the blood has run down from the fingers and hand; the other one will remain its natural color.
Unconscious Movements. Slit a match at the wrong end and cut another one on the slant. Now place one within the other, so as to form an acute angle, and set these united matches astride the blade of a dinner knife. Impress on the experimenter to allow the phosphorus ends lightly to touch the table, but on no account to move away from its surface. The matches will now begin to march along the blade. In order to render the experiment more attractive, cause the two matches to imitate the legs of a little man by placing a painted puppet on top of them.