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10 morning; and such will be fact, if the papers be be put in any dry, warm situation.

Conceal a piece of lace in your hand; then produce another piece of the same pattern; double the latter, and put the fold between your fore-finger and thumb, with the piece which you have concealed, doubled in the same manner; pull out a little of the latter, so as to make a loop, and desire one of the company to cut it asunder. If you have conveyed the concealed piccepiece [sic] of lace, so dexterously as to be undetected, with the other between your thumb and fore-finger, the spectators will, naturally enough, think you have really cut the latter: which you may seem to make whole again, while repeating some conjuring words, and putting away the two ends of the picccpiece [sic] that is actually cut.

The thread having been previously soaked two or three times in common salt and water, tie it to a ring not larger than a wedding-ring. When you apply the flame of a candle to it, though the thread burn to ashes, it will yet sustain the ring.

Take salt-petre an ounce, cream of Tartar an ounce, sulphur half an ounce, beat them to