Throw it under some piece of furniture or out of the window, and immediately opening the right hand, throw the three pellets on the chair. Pick up the third and say: This one we will send on its travels. Then showing the right hand empty, pick up a pellet with the thumb and finger of the left and place it in the right, saying, one, and immediately closing the hand. Roll up three paper pellets about the size of a pea and throw them on a table or chair seat where all can see them. Excerpt from Houdini's Paper Magic: The Whole Art of Performing With Paper, Including Paper Tearing, Paper Folding and Paper Puzzles The following is a good impromptu combi nation that can be done anywhere, no prepara tion being necessary. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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