5. MULTIPLICATION
Place the balls in line and cover each with a cup. Lift A, and in putting it down leave the palmed ball under it. Pick up the ball just uncovered and put it in your pocket, really palming it. Raise B and load the palmed ball in replacing it. Take the second ball; apparently put it in your pocket, but palm it as before.
Lift C and leave the palmed ball under it, again pretending to place the third ball in the pocket but really palming it. Return to A and repeat the same maneuver.
Continue this apparent multiplication for five rounds of the three cups, gradually increasing the pace until for the final round you are working as rapidly as you possibly can. In putting the last ball in your pocket, drop it there, seize the orange, and work up to the climax production of fruit, exactly as described in sleight 6, by loading the apple, the orange, and the potato into the cups and finally revealing them.
A bowler hat with a compartment holding fifteen balls can be used as a receptacle for the balls as they are produced and apparently placed in it. A half-double bottom provides the necessary hiding place (Fig. 10) and, if the hat is turned quickly to the position shown in the figure, this will never be noticed. When the hat is turned over the opposite way, the balls will roll out.
It is essential that the trick be accompanied throughout by lively patter, and it must not be dragged out; four or five minutes is ample time to devote to it. Finally, the omission of the use of the wand and the flourishes detracts very greatly from the effect.
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