gh, although the skin does not show it.

Slip this apple in your pocket, and during dessert select an apple as
much like the prepared one as possible. Having previously placed your
serviette over your knees, with the prepared apple in it, drop the apple
just selected and pick up the former with your right hand while you turn
your plate over with your left hand. Putting the apple on its side on
the inverted plate, laying your forefinger on the apple you give the
former a smart blow with your right fist, when the apple will fall in
two pieces.

A TRICK WITH DOMINOES

Take a full set of dominoes--twenty-eight pieces--turn them face
downward on the table; shuffle them thoroughly; then tell the company to
turn them over and match them in the ordinary way, while you take a seat
at the other end of the room with your back to the table. They can
blindfold you if they wish. As soon as all the pieces are matched you
call out the numbers shown at the two ends of the row. Return to the
table, turn the dominoes over again, shuffle them as before with the
right hand; again turn your back, and call out the end numbers. You can
repeat this any number of times without detection, unless some one
should count the pieces and find only twenty-seven. Each time you have
shuffled them you have dropped a piece concealed in your right hand, and
extracted and palmed another. One piece taken from a set of dominoes
invariably indicates by its numbers the numbers at the two ends of a row
when the pieces are all properly matched.

AN ESCAPE

Ask some one to tie your wrists together with a handkerchief, and then
to pass a cord between your arms behind your tied wrists, and hold the
ends securely. Have towel or cloth thrown over your hands, and after a
very brief interval tell the person who holds the ends of the cord to
pull. When he does so, the latter will pass from your hands and fall on
the floor. You remove the cloth, and show that your wrists are still
tied together.

EXPLANATION.--When your hands are covered, move your elbows out, which
will separate your wrists, push the second finger of your right hand
between them, and with it pull the bight of the cord through the bandage
round your wrists, slip it over one hand, and when your assistant pulls
the cord it will pass off clear of your hands.

CIGARETTE PAPERS AND SERVIETTES

Screw three cigarette papers up into pellets and cover each of them with
a folded serviette. Then lift t