6. RABBIT OR GUINEA PIG
A small rabbit or a guinea pig can be carried in the loading pocket of the coat on the left side and loaded into the hat under cover of the diversion caused by the dropping of an article to the stage. If you have a small waterproof mat on which to accidentally drop an egg, its smash will give you time to load an elephant.
The stuffed rabbits now obtainable at the magic stores can be made to look lifelike enough while being carried off stage immediately after the production, but whenever possible a live rabbit should be used. An easy method is to have the animal in a black bag, the mouth of which has four or five metal rings sewn to it. Put the rabbit in, and hang the bag by the rings on a headless nail at the back of a small threefold screen. In the course of the preceding productions throw a number of silks over the screen in such a way that in picking them up you can grasp the bag by the rings. When you have the hat empty, pretend that you will give the articles to the owner of the hat; pick up the silks and the bag and dump them into the hat, bag first. Discover then that there is something else in it, remove the silks, and bring out the rabbit. The bag must be lined with silk of different colors, parts of which are left unsewn so that when the bag is turned inside out it will pass for a bunch of silks.
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