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said piece of lead, with the hollow end of the stick, from the same eye, and so with the end of the said stick being brought along upon your forehead to the other eye, you may thrust out the piece of lead, and then shove it out of the eye: and some put it into both, but the first is the best. This is easily done, howbeit, being cleanly handled, it will deceive the sight of the beholders.
How to let a Gentleman hold ten pieces of Money in his hand, and to command them into what number he can think on.
You must fling your money on a table, and desire any body to tell ten pieces out on the table, when they have done they will say, there is ten. Note, you must have in readiness, privately concealed in your right hand five pieces, then you must tell the company that you always tell your money after every person, so telling down the money with your left hand, and taking it up with your right, convey the five pieces to the ten, then ask if any body is desirous to hold them, and there will be enough to hold them, and be sure to hold them fast; that done, bid them call for what number they please to think on between 10 and 15, and so let them call for what number they will, you know they have it in their hand, and when they open their hand, they are struck to admiration. But be sure not to forget your terms of art to amaze the beholders.
How to command Seven Halfpence through a Table.
This feat is one of the greatest that the jugglers have done, and is inferior to none. To do
