2. THE SILK CUT IN HALF AND RESTORED
Effect. A silk is pushed into a paper tube in such a way that its ends protrude at each side. The tube is cut fairly in half and the halves are separated, one end of the silk showing in each. The two parts of the tube are placed together and the silk is pulled out whole, as at first.
Articles required. A thumb tip, prepared by gluing inside it, a fairly large corner of a silk of the same color as the silk to be used in the trick, a sheet of paper about five inches square, a pair of scissors, and a silk. Place the tip in a position from which it can be taken secretly when it is required.
Method. Get the tip on your right thumb secretly and pick up the paper between the thumb and fingers, the thumb at the back and hiding the tip. Show both sides of the paper by lifting the bottom with the left hand up to the right hand and at the same time releasing the top. Roll the paper into a tube around the thumb tightly and leave the tip inside, being careful not to let any part of the silk inside it show. Place an elastic band round the middle of the tube.
Hold the tube vertically in the right hand by the lower end, preventing the tip from dropping out by placing the little finger under the mouth. Push the silk in at the top with the left hand until about two inches of the last corner protrude, but prevent any part of the silk going past the middle of the tube by pressing the tip of the right thumb against the paper at the back. Insert the forefinger in the other end and pull out the corner from the tip. Thus to all appearances the silk passes right through the tube, a corner being visible at each end.
Take the scissors in the right hand, pinch the paper tube tightly with the left fingers and thumb at a point between the middle and the thumb tip, and cut the tube in half. Show the parts separate, one in each hand, with the ends showing the protruding corners toward the spectators. Put them together again; push the fake corner in with the right thumb, at the same time stealing the thumb tip; then pull the silk out from the other end with the left hand, showing it whole as at first.
Open out the two parts of the paper, keeping the right thumb behind; roll them up with the tip; and put them aside or pocket them. Or you may put the silk momentarily in your left outside coat pocket while you show the papers and tear them up; the tip, of course, drops into the pocket.
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