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[Illustration: PLEASANT FOR JIM.

SMALL BOY. "Oh-ow-ow! Look out, Jim--here is a great b-b-b-big Bull-dog
coming at us!"]

MORE MIRTHFUL MAGIC.

BY W. B. BARTLETT.

THE BOOK PUZZLE.

The player agrees to let any person in the room turn over as many books,
one at a time, as desired, while he is out of the room, and promises to
tell you, upon his return, which book was turned over last. He goes out,
and comes back when the person who turned the books says, "Come in."
When he opens the door, he says, "You must stay outside while I find
out, so no one will suspect us of being in league with each other." The
one who turned the books is then shut out, and the other selects any
thin book, and leans it against the door, and says, "Come in." As the
door is opened, of course the book is turned over on the floor, and the
victim is told, "That is the last book you turned over."

THE NEWSPAPER TRICK.

Take a common newspaper or handkerchief, and request any one of the
company to place it on the floor so that two persons can stand upon it
at the same time, and neither be able to see or touch the other.

_Answer._--Place it across the door-sill, and let one stand upon it in
the entry. Then close the door, and ask the other to step upon the other
end in the room, and neither can