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Coin and Glass 36
A Simple Experiment with Four Shillings 38
Puzzle of Ten Halfpence 39
How to Increase Your Wealth 39
A Neat Coin Trick 40
A Subtle Impromptu Effect with a Coin 41
An Original Coin Swindle 42
A Cross 43

SIMPLE TRICKS WITH HANDKERCHIEFS, RINGS, CANDLES, ETC.

A Knot that Cannot be Drawn Tight 44
To Tie an Instantaneous Knot in a Handkerchief 45
Half a Burnt Message Found Restored in a Candle 46
Two Good Ring Tricks 47

SIMPLE ARITHMETICAL PROBLEMS

To Ascertain a Number Thought of 49
How to Name a Number which has been Erased 51
A Lesson in the Correct Formation of a Figure 52
Four Nines Problem 53
An Answer to a Sum Given in Advance 53
An Arithmetical Puzzle 54
An Arithmetical Mystery 55
How to Tell Her Age 55
A Race in Addition 56
To Predict the Hour Your Friend Intends to Rise on the
Following Morning 57

MATCH PUZZLES

Experiment with Ten Matches 59
The Magic Nine 60
Triangles with Matches 61
Match Squares 61
Your Opponent must Take the Last Match 62
A Shakespearean Quotation 63
Numeral 63
Six and Five Make Nine 63
The Artful Schoolboys