4. NOVEL CIGARETTE MANIPULATION
Effect. A cigarette is made from a cigarette paper only and smoked.
Method. Place a cigarette in the rubber-band holder, already described, and fasten it under the edge of your coat, on the left hand side, in position to be easily stolen with the left fingers. The cigarette should have a little of the tobacco removed from each end and the paper pressed in.
Show a cigarette paper and, if you are skillful enough, balance it on the bridge of your nose; if not, make several attempts, then deliberately wet one corner and plaster it against the side of your nose. This will certainly get a laugh and give you the opportunity of stealing the planted cigarette with your left hand in the finger palm. Take the paper in the same hand, between the first and second fingers (Fig. 18).
Show the right hand empty, then with that hand slide the bottom of the paper under the top of the cigarette (Fig. 19) and draw the cigarette up behind it with the right thumb. You have then merely to roll the real cigarette in the paper. Being shortened a little, its ends will not protrude and the rolling can be completed very openly. Screw the ends up a little, as is generally done with a handmade cigarette, and call attention to the perfect way in which you have rolled the paper tube. Pretend to take a pinch of tobacco from your pocket and throw it toward the paper. Strike a match, light the cigarette, and puff on it. This is a charming little feat that is always effective.
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