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11 singly, then mix them together, and put the powder in a paper in your pocket, you may then at any time you please, convey a grain into a pipe of tobacco, and when it takes fire it will give the report of a musket, but not break the pipe; or you may put as much as will lay upon your nail in any place, upon little bits of paper, and setting fire to it, there will be the report of so many great guns, but it will not produce any bad effect.

Take twenty-on cards, and lay them down in three rows, with their faces upward; (i.e.) when you have laid out three, begin again at the left hand, and lay one card upon the first and so on to the right hand; then begin on the left hand again, and so go on until you have laid out the twenty-one cards in three heaps at the same time requesting any one to think of a card. When you have laid them out ask him which heap his card is in: then lay that heap in the middle between the other two. This done, lay them out again in three heaps as before, and again request him to notice where his noted card goes, and put that heap in the middle as before. Then taking up the cards with their backs toward you, take off the uppermost card, and reckon it one; take off another, which reckon, two; and thus proceed till you come to the eleventh, which will