3. THE WATCH IN THE DINNER ROLL
Effect. The effect of this trick is similar to that of the preceding one; but it is much simpler, both in the working and the preparation.
Preparation. You will require a ten-inch square of flash paper and three dinner rolls, two unprepared and one with a hole in one end large enough to take a small watch.
Method. To present the trick you begin by borrowing a watch, preferably a lady’s. Receive it on the middle of the flash paper—which you have folded twice, making a square of five inches.
Fold the paper round the watch, using the trick fold already explained; hold the resulting package at the tips of the left thumb and fingers, with the opening downwards. Call attention to the rolls—which you have on a plate, the prepared one being in the middle of the other two. Have one chosen; if the middle one is selected, toss the other two out to the spectators. If an outside roll is chosen, toss it out and have a choice made between the other two, the one on the right or the one on the left. By resorting to the equivoque “My right” or “Your left,” you force the answer to apply to the prepared roll.
Pick up the prepared roll, and place it in the left hand for a moment as you thrust your right hand into your pocket for matches. Place the roll in such a position that the hole in the end is directly under the open fold of the watch packet, and let the watch slip into the hole. Show the matches in your right hand; then take the roll again in that hand and put it on the plate, the opening to the rear. Move away from the table; show the packet at the tips of the left fingers, the impression showing the shape of the watch being visible to all; call attention to the impression. Take out a match; strike it and light the flash paper, at once tossing it toward the roll on the plate. The paper vanishes in a flash and the watch, so far as the audience is concerned, vanishes at the same moment.
It only remains to pick up the roll, one hand at each end, between the thumb and fingers, and squeeze the “holed” end flat. Show all parts of the roll as held, then break it in half and reveal the watch embedded in it. Carry it down to the owner to be removed and identified.
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