3. FOR SEVERAL SILKS
The best and most popular method of effecting the disappearance of a number of silks, or indeed of a single silk where a complete vanish is necessary, is by means of a pull. This is simply a cup attached to a length of cord elastic, so arranged that when the silk (or silks) is pushed into the cup and the latter is released the elastic, will pull the whole under the coat (Fig. 11).
To fix the pull, fasten the elastic by means of a loop at the free end to a suspender button on the left side of the body, first passing it through a small loop of elastic sewn at the top of the trousers on the right-hand side; this loop will not only prevent the cup from swinging down into sight under the coat, but will also keep it in a readily accessible position. Arrange the length of the elastic cord so that the cup can be drawn outwards from the body about fifteen inches, with sufficient tension to make it fly back instantly under the coat when it is released.
To use the pull properly, seize a favorable opportunity to take the cup secretly and place it at the top of the trousers pocket. Show the silk in the right hand; pull your sleeves back a little; then roll the silk between the hands as for the sleight-of-hand vanish, but really leave the silk in the left hand. Hold the right hand partly closed and thrust it into the trousers pocket. You will be challenged, or at least there will be knowing looks and whispers amongst the spectators. So you open the left hand, showing the silk, and at the same moment bring the right hand out of the pocket with the cup palmed. Bring the hands together; work the silk into the cup with backward and forward movements of the hands. When it is completely in the receptacle, let this latter slip out of the hands at the moment when they are nearest to the coat, but continue the movements for a few moments; then hold the hands stationary, well away from the body, rub them together, and finally show that they are empty.
Care must be taken to release the pull at such an angle that the cup slips under the side of the coat without disturbing it and slides to the side of the body without the thud too often heard.
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