5. THE AUCTION
Method. An amusing mise-en-scène for the smashing of a borrowed watch is this: Having switched the watch and wrapped the dummy in a handkerchief, place the package on your table and announce that you have been authorized to sell it to the highest bidder. Take a hammer and start the bidding yourself at ten cents; as the bids come in keep tapping the watch with the hammer, now and then striking a sharp blow on the table as you call, “Going. Going.” If you are a good actor, the spectators will enter into the fun and bid fast and furiously as you hit the watch harder and harder in the excitement. Finally call, “Gone”; and bring the hammer down hard on the watch, smashing it to pieces. Profuse apologies follow, then the vanish of the fragments, and the final reproduction of the watch restored to its original beauty.
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