1. FOR ONE VERY LARGE LOAD
Preparation. Put the flowers up in bundles of one hundred and wrap each bundle round twice with green ribbon. Stack some fifteen or more or these bundles on edge and wrap them tightly with a strip of cloth, two inches wide, black on the outside and green inside. Tie the bundle firmly, crosswise, with black thread and leave a loop about eight inches in length.
Method. To perform the trick place the bundle under your coat on the right side, bend the right arm across the chest, slip the right thumb through the thread loop, take the sheet of paper in the right hand and the open parasol in the left hand. Take your position in the center of the stage; stick the parasol in the floor; twirl the paper two or three times between the hands, showing both sides; then grasp the top edge with the right hand—the thumb nearest the body, the fingers on the outside—and the bottom edge with the left hand. Move the right hand forwards a little and allow the bundle to swing, from behind the coat, back of the paper. Seize the lower left-hand corner with the left hand, twist it upwards over the load, let the loop slip off the thumb, and twist the corner of the cone tightly with the right hand. The whole action must be done coolly and deliberately.
After the pretended catching of the flowers from the air, it is necessary only to push one of the packets free and then shake all the packets loose, so that the flowers well upwards in a continuous stream. As many as two thousand flowers can be loaded at once by this method.
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