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 bag, and take up your hen-bag, and so shake your hen, pigeon, or any other fowl. This is a noble fancy if well handled.

To shew the Trick with the Funnel.

You must get a double funnel that is two funnels soldered one within the other, so that you may at the little end pour in a quantity of wine or water. This funnel you have ready filled beforehand, whatsoever liquor you please, and call for some of the same kind; than draw your funnal, and setting your middle finger into the bottom of it, bid some body, or else do it yours If, pour it full, and drink it up before them, and turn the broad end of the funnel downwards, saying, "Gentlemen all is gone:" add in a trice turn yourself about, and in turning, pronounce some terms of art: withdraw your finger from the narrow end, and let the liquor out between the funnels, and it will be thought to be that which you drink out of the funnel, and so you may persuade them it is the same.

How to make three little children dance in a Glass upon a table

Take little figures of glass that are made hollow of an inch an a half high representing little boys, which may be had at the glass-blowers.—These little images have a small hole in one of their legs, and are lighter than water. Immerge them into the water contained in the glass A. B. This glass is about a foot or 15 inches high, and covered with a bladder which is tied fast over the top: a small quantity of air is to be left