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13 stripping up your sleeve, rub the ashes hard with your finger, where you had written with your water, then blow off the ashes, and the name or mark will plainly be read on your arm in black letters.

Lay a looking-glass upon an even table; take a fresh egg, and shake it for some time, so that the yoke may be broken and mixed up with the white. You may then, with a steady hand, balance it on its point, and make it stand on the glass. This it would be impossible to do while the egg was in its natural state.

Take a sixpence, blow on it, and clap it presently into one of your spectator’s hands, bidding him to hold it fast; then ask of him if he be sure he have it; then to be certain he will open his hand and look.. Then say to him, “Nay, but if you let my breath go off, I eannotcannot [sic] do it.” Then take it out of his hand again, and blow on it, and, staring him in the face, elapclap [sic] a piece of horn in his hand, and retain the sixpence, shutting his hand, yourself. Bid him hold his hand down, and slip the tester between one of his cuffs. Then take the stone you show feats with, and hold it unto his hand, saying, “ By virtue hereof I will command the money to vanish you hold in