Chapter XIII: The Cups and Balls

Introductory Remarks 271

Principles of Sleight-of-hand applicable to Ball Tricks--

To Palm the Ball 273

To Reproduce the Palmed Ball at the End of the Fingers 274

To Secretly Introduce the Palmed Ball under the Cup 275

To Simulate the Action of Placing a Ball under a Cup 276

To Produce a Ball from the Wand 276

To Return a Ball into the Wand 277

To Pass one Cup through Another 277

Burlesque Address to the Spectators 278

Pass I. Having Placed a Ball under each Cup, to draw it out
again without Lifting the Cup 279

Pass II. To make a Ball Travel invisibly from Cup to Cup 281

Pass III. Having placed a Ball under each of the end Cups, to
make them pass successively under the Middle Cup 282

Pass IV. Having placed two Balls under the Middle Cup, to make
them pass under the two Outer Ones 283

Pass V. To pass three Balls in succession under One Cup 283

Pass VI. To place three Balls one after the other upon the top
of one of the Cups, and to make them fall through the Cup
on to the Table 284

Pass VII. To pass three Balls in succession upwards through the
Table into one of the Cups 285

Pass VIII. To pass two Balls in succession from one Cup to
another without touching them 286

Pass IX. To make three Balls in succession pass under the
Middle Cup 286

Pass X. The “Multiplication” Pass 287

Pass XI. To Transform the Small Balls to Larger Ones 288

Pass XII. To again Transform the Balls to still Larger Ones 289

CHAPTER XIV.

BALL TRICKS REQUIRING SPECIAL APPARATUS.

Further principles of Sleight-of-hand applicable to Ball Tricks--

To Palm a large Ball 293

To Vanish a Large Ball with the aid of the Table 294

The Ball Box 295

The Red-and-Black-Ball Vases 296

Morison’s Pill-box 298

The Ball which changes to a Rose 300

The Obedient Ball 301

CHAPTER XV.

HAT TRICKS.

The Cannon-balls in the Hat 304

Multiplying Balls 307

The “Hundred Goblets” from a Hat 308

A Dozen Babies from a Hat 309

The Magic Reticules 309

The Drums from the Hat 310

The Birdcages from the Hat 311

The Cake (or Pudding) in the Hat 312

The Welsh Rabbit 313