5. THE WIRE LOOP
When the load is of such a nature that it must be hang from a headless nail, a different plan is resorted to. Twist a piece of fine, flexible black wire into the shape in Fig. 2. The larger loop must be big enough to allow for the easy insertion of the middle finger, the smaller loop serves for hanging the bundle on a nail at the back of a table or chair, and the ends of the wire are twisted under the thread with which the load is tied together. The Fig. 2 action is the same as that described for the cannon ball in 4. The right middle finger is inserted in the loop while the left hand takes some article from the table or the seat of the chair. The load is pulled off the headless nail and, as you move away, the right hand drops and the load is swung into the hat.
So apparently unmanageable an object as a bowl of water can be loaded into the hat by this method. Fill a small bowl with water and place a rubber cover over it; tie a strong black thread round the bowl cover tightly crosswise, and suspend the bowl by the wire gimmick. Its subsequent production from a borrowed hat makes a startling climax to the rice bowl trick.
Simply vanish one of the bowls, by means of the faked tray and wire shape in a handkerchief, and then produce the bowl from the hat again, brimful of water.
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