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8 The Card burnt, and afterwards found in a Watch.

One of the company draws a chance card, and you ask for three watches from the spectators, which you fold up in separate pieces of paper in the form of dice boxes, which are laid on the table, and covered with a napkin— the card chosen is burnt, and the cinders put into a box—shortly after the box is opened, the ashes are not there. The three watches are put on a plate, and some one of the company chooses one, the same person opens the watch, and finds under the glass a piece of the burnt card: and in the watchcase, under the watch, is found a miniature card, resembling the one burnt.

EXPLANATION.

The card chosen is known by the arrangement we have explained. The watches are placed, well covered with paper, on a little trap: the trap is described in the cutting, tearing, and mending a handkerchief. When you have made known to the confederate the card which is chosen, he stretches his arm to the table to take one of the watches, and deposit there what is requisite; the watches must be covered with a napkin, which is supported