4. THE THREE BALL TRICK
Preparation. This very interesting trick can he worked before the Excelsior four balls trick (see page 106) with excellent results. Two balls and one shell are required, and you prepare by placing one ball under the vest on the righthand side and the other ball with the shell in the upper left vest pocket.
Method. Begin by producing the ball from the vest by one of the methods already explained; make several passes with it; then pretend to put it in the left hand and make it travel up the sleeve. Thrust the right hand under the coat and take the ball and shell together from the vest pocket, keeping the first ball palmed. Place the ball and shell on the open left hand, supporting them between the thumb and forefinger as one ball, keeping the other fingers bent in a little. Announce that you will produce a second ball by cutting this one in half. Pretend to do this by placing the right hand vertically across the left hand, drop the palmed ball behind the visible ball, and draw the right hand away as if actually cutting the ball. Show the two balls as the result of this halving operation. Then say that you will catch a third ball in the air. Let it be seen that your right hand is empty; make a pretense of catching a ball, holding the hand pulled out, and feign to place it with the other two in the left hand—in reality, under cover of the two hands, you simply lift the shell and place it alongside the solid balls. Display the three as three solid balls (Fig. 16).
To vanish the balls, pretend to take the ball last produced; in reality, roll it under the shell and remove the hand empty but puffed out as if it held the ball. Crumble this to nothing in the usual way.
Take the ball and shell in the right hand and knock the ball against the other to prove that the balls are solid. Replace the shell only, keeping the ball palmed; then say that you will pass one ball up your sleeve. Close the left hand, bringing the shell over the ball, and produce the palmed ball from the armpit under the coat. Pretend to pass the ball the reverse way, put the ball in the right hand under the coat, drop it into the breast pocket, and with a circular wave of the left hand separate the ball and the shell. Apparently take one of these two balls; really slip the shell over the solid and move the right hand away empty, but puffed out. Make the vanish as usual.
Call attention to the one ball that remains; in reality, one ball and the shell. To get rid of the shell ask the spectators if they wish the ball to vanish visibly or invisibly. The greater number will demand a visible vanish; so you place the ball and the shell openly in your breast pocket, a visible vanish, then bring out the ball only. Finally you vanish this ball by one or other of the methods already explained.
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