1. THE REAPPEARING WRIST WATCH
Effect. A wrist watch, taken off the wrist and repeatedly vanished, always returns to the performer’s wrist.
Method. Four toy wrist watches, such as those procurable at the dime stores, are required.
Remove the leather straps and replace them with elastic braid and snap fasteners. Make up three small paper cones of brown paper with secret pockets (see page 80). Place one in your breast pocket; crumple the other two into loose balls and put them in the front corner of your outside coat pocket on the righthand side. Fasten all four watches on your left arm, one above the other (Fig. 16).
Begin by taking off the first watch; in doing so, engage the fingers in the band of the next one and pull it down as you adjust the sleeve, being careful that it remains out of sight. Take the paper cone from your pocket, open it, and drop the watch into it. After announcing what is to take place—the watch to vanish and return to your arm—open the paper and show it empty. Crush it up tightly; carry it in the right hand to your right coat pocket as you extend the left arm to full length, and look intently at it. At the moment the second watch thus comes into view, drop the crumpled cone into the pocket and pick up one of the empty papers. Bring the right hand over and pull the left sleeve back a little further.
Pretending that you think “that gentleman over there” did not quite follow the trick, offer to repeat it. Open up the crumpled paper cone, detach the second watch, and follow the same procedure as before.
Finally do the trick a third time, and reveal the fourth watch. This time simply drop the cone into the coat pocket and leave it there. The spectators have seen the same paper, as they think, used three times, and any suspicions they might have had of the paper being prepared will have been wiped out.
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