5. THE PAPER CONE AND THE THIMBLE
This trick introduces a new principle and will serve as a model on which other feats can be based.
Two thimbles, which nest exactly one into the other, are required. Show these on the tip of the forefinger of the right hand as one thimble. Make a little cone with a piece of paper to fit easily over the thimbles and be careful that the edges of its mouth are quite even, so that it will stand upright on the table with no break through which any object inside it might be glimpsed. Place the cone over the right forefinger momentarily, as if to show that it fits; then place it point upwards on the table, apparently empty; in reality you have removed the outer thimble with the cone and set it down inside the cone on the table. This last must be covered with a cloth to avoid any tell-tale sound.
Announce that the thimble, still visible on the forefinger, is to pass under the cone. Vanish it from the left hand, by one of the sleights already explained, carrying the left hand over the cone, agitating the fingers, then opening the hand and showing it empty. Seize the cone by its mouth with the thumb and fingers of the right hand (its back to the front) and lift it, showing the thimble on the table. Take the thimble in the left hand to show it better, drawing all attention to that side, and at the same time let the palmed thimble drop into the cone by relaxing the pressure of the right thumb. Replace the cone on the table, point up, and announce that you will repeat the trick.
Vanish the thimble again, using a different pass. This time pick up the cone by the middle between the first and second fingers of the right hand; point to the thimble, thus revealed, with the left forefinger; turn the cone, mouth upwards, toward the inside of the right hand with the tip of the middle finger and let the thumb palmed thimble drop into the cone. Complete the upward turn of the cone and hold it, mouth upwards, by the point. The move can be made in a moment while all eyes are attracted to the thimble on the table.
Take the cone by the point in the left hand and vanish the thimble from the right forefinger by making a pretended throw into the air. Follow its supposed flight with your eyes and suddenly reach out with the left hand as if to catch the thimble in the cone. Claim that you have succeeded; turn to a spectator on your right, have him hold out his hand (palm upwards), turn the cone over, and let the thimble drop onto his hand. In the meantime you have disposed of the duplicate thimble by dropping it into the right-hand trousers pocket.
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