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CALKINS'S PRIMARY OBJECT LESSONS. Primary Object Lessons, for Training
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SOLUTION TO MONDDIA PUZZLE.

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With a pair of scissors cut the straight line from A to B in Fig. 1.
Then join the two pieces as in Fig. 2, and you have a Diamond.

FIRE-EATING.

BY F. BELLEW.

You have read accounts, no doubt, if you have not seen the actual
performance, of men who do wonderful things in the way of swallowing
fire. Some of these feats may be executed by amateurs, with very good
effect, in parlor entertainments.

I will first describe the feat of swallowing fire. This is very simple.
Take a small piece of jeweller's cotton about the size of a walnut, and
pour on it a little alcohol; a few drops will do. Then, standing with
your face to the audience, you light this with a match. You then take a
long breath, and open your mouth wide, holding your breath, mind, all
the time; then you put the blazing cotton into your mouth, but just as
it passes your lips you blow all the air sharply from your lungs (this
extinguishes the fire in the cotton); shut your mouth quickly on the
cotton, and press it boldly to the roof of your mouth with your tongue.
You then slip the wad of cotton into your cheek, and swallow a draught
of water from a tumbler you have ready on the table. As you wipe your
mouth with your handkerchief after drinking the water, you remove the
bit of cotton, and then you can allow any one of the audience to examine
your mouth in order to satisfy himself that you really swallowed the
fire.

In these fire-eating tricks, if you wash your mouth out with alum and
water, all the better.

The other feat of fire-eating is a very old one, and has been often
published, but I have seen so very many people astonished by it that I
venture to give it again for the new generation.

THE CANDLE TRICK.

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Procure a good, large apple or turnip, and cut from it a