Book 3 — A One-Piece Bracelet Cut from a Calling Card

It Is Hard to Imitate a Quick and Skillful Performance of This Simple Trick

A trick that will amuse and interest persons both old and young can be performed with a calling card, cigarette paper, or other similar material, cut with a scissors or knife, as indicated in the diagram. The card is shown, and the performer announces that he will pass his hand through the card, making a bracelet of it. He will, of course, be challenged, and proceeds as follows: He folds the card lengthwise and cuts through two thicknesses from 1 to 2, 3 to 4, etc.; then opens the card, and cuts from 1 to 13. By stretching the paper, as shown in the sketch, the hand may be passed through the card readily. The spectators are soon trying to duplicate the trick.—R. E. Jones, Velasco, Texas.