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 this, you must go to some tinman, or any body that knows how to make your holes room enough for a die to go in and out. and then let them clap a good halfpenny upon them all, and so makes them fast, and nobody can tell them from true ones; then you must get a cap to covcrcover [sic] your half-pence: a cap and a die for the company to sling to amuse them; when you are thus provided with half-pence a cap and a die, the manner of performance is thus; desire any body in the company to lend you seven half-pence, telling them that you will soon return them their own again: then say, 'Gentlemen, this is made just fit for your money; then clapping your cap on, desire somebody in the company, to fling that die to see what they can fling, and in so doing take off the cap, and convey your false money into the cap, so that the company may not see you put it in then with your cap over the die, so with your right hand take up the true money, and put it into your left under the table, saying 'Vada, be-gone, I command the die to be gone, and the money to come in the place;' so take up the cap, and the die is gone and the money is come, covering the money again with the cap, so taking the true money in your right hand, and knocking under the table, making a jingling as though the money was coming through the table, then flinging them on the table, say, 'There is the money, and with your right hand take off the cap; saying, 'And there is the die;' so convey the false money into your lap and there is the cap likewise.—This is an ingenious feat if well handled, here make the figure of a die, and the fashion of seven half pence, and a cap to cover them.