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the air with your right hand you reproduce the handkerchief.


Handkerchief from Tissue Paper.—Take
Fig. 20.—Handkerchief Clamp
a small bit of soft copper wire, covered with cotton (e. g., a piece of insulated telegraph wire), and construct a clamp about the size shown in the diagram, (Fig. 20). A small red silk handkerchief
Fig. 21.—Handkerchief Trick
about ten inches square is folded as compactly as possible and placed between the clamps. By pressing the wire the handkerchief is kept securely fastened. Place the fake on your table, the handkerchief pointing toward yourself, (Fig. 21). Now take a piece of white tissue paper, four and one-half by seven inches, and lay it over the handkerchief. This arrangement of course is effected before the performance begins.