4. AN EXPOSURE AND A CLIMAX
Effect. A silk changes places with an egg and vice versa, the method is exposed, the spectators see how they have been fooled, and then the climax leaves them more in the dark than ever.
Accessories. A real egg, a hollow egg (Fig. 5), three small red silks, one large red silk, a bottomless glass, and an ordinary glass.
Preparation. Roll one of the small red silks into a ball, one end protruding and the other tucked into a fold; place the large red silk on the table with the balled red silk on it hidden by a fold; put the hollow egg and a small red silk in the bottomless glass on the table; tuck the third red silk into your collar at the back and the real egg into your right trousers pocket at the top, the pocket itself being screwed up to hold it there.
Method. Stand with the table to your left; take the small red silk from the glass, show it, and throw it over your left shoulder; then remove the egg from the glass, show its good side, put it in your left hand; take the bottomless glass in your right hand, letting it stand on the palm, and put the egg into it.
With the left hand pick up the large red silk, with the smaller one in its folds; with it cover the glass and the egg, at the same time letting the small silk drop in. Drape the large silk round the glass; lift both off the right hand, leaving the hollow egg in the right palm; and put the covered glass on the table.
With the right hand holding the hollow egg palmed, take the red silk from your shoulder and show it hanging from the fingertips. Turn to the left and show the left hand empty. Bring it over to take the silk and turn to the right, making the change over with the egg; then show the right hand empty. Explain the changes of position that are to be made, bring the hands together, wave them up and down, and gradually work the silk into the hollow egg.
When the whole of the silk is inside the egg, show it lying on the palm of the right hand; with the left hand remove the silk covering the glass, seize the corner of the balled silk and jerk it out to its full length. Display the articles thus, the egg in one hand and the silk in the other. Throw the silk over your left shoulder.
Now proceed with the exposure. Take the egg in the left hand, turn it and show the hole and the silk inside; at the same moment hook the real egg out of the trousers pocket with the right thumb and palm it. Draw the silk out of the egg; then push it in again and hold the egg in the left hand, with the hole showing the silk toward the audience. Bring the right hand over to the left as if merely to turn the egg around to show its good side, palm the hollow egg, and leave the good one in its place.
With the right hand take the red silk from your left shoulder and push it into your trousers pocket, leaving the egg there as well.
Approach the table; ask the spectators if they thoroughly understand the trick. Then slowly turn the egg, showing all parts of it; break it into the ordinary glass; and, finally, pull the red silk from the back of your collar.
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