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Show How the Flood Came. The aboriginal blacks of Australia have a quesr tradition about the flood, j surd, for how can the picture of a They say that at one time there was r.o water on the earih at all, except in the body of an immense frog, where men and women could not get it. There was a great council on the subject, sub-ject, and it was found out that if the frog could be made to laugh the waters wat-ers would run out of his mouti and tae drought be ended. So several auinia's were made to dance ard cppen- before the frog to induce him to lajijrhr, but he did not even smile, and so the waters remained re-mained in his body. Then some one happened to think of the queer contortions contor-tions into which the ell could twist itself, it-self, and it was sivaig'ntway brought before the frog. .And when the frog saw the wriggling he laughed so loud that the whole earth trembled, and the make any one of them, or all of them, one at a time, see the bird actually enter the cage. Of course they will laugh at you and say that what you propose is ab-bird ab-bird move and enter the picture of cage? Let us tell you how. The accompanying illustration shows how the picture should be drawn; perhaps it might be as well for you to copy it. Now take an ordinary or-dinary visiting card, and, holding it between your thumb and your finger, let it touch the paper on the line between be-tween the cage and the bird. Place yourself opposite to the light, whether wheth-er from a window or a gas' jet, so that the card will not throw a shadow, and then press your nose against the edge of the card and look at the two pictures. Thus you will see the bird with jour right eye and the cage with your left, and for an instant they will waters poured out of his mouth in a great flood, in which many people were drowned. The black people were saved from drowning by the pelican. This thoughtful bird made a big canoe, and went with it all among the islands that appeared here and there above the surface of the water and gathered gath-ered in the black people and saved them. Magic Bird and Cage. No simple little trick is more astonishing as-tonishing than the one herein de- SOrlHnri Anv I,... r-. - .!-! Aon M1. both seem stationary. Then all at once the bird , will appear to move toward the cage and finally to enter it, just as if it had life and had gone in through a door. If your puzzled friends desire an explanation of the phenomenon refer them to the chapter on Optics in their Natural Philosophy. The Wonderful Cap. If you care to play a clever joke on your friends, here is one which will suit you, as it is really good and not one of those jokes that do any harm or offend the. persons you are trying to fool. In the first place, the more persons you fool the more fun it is for you, so get as many together as you can before you do the trick. The name of the trick is "The Wonderful Won-derful Cap." All you need to have to do the trick is three caps or hats and three pieces of candy, sugar, crackers or anything you happen to have handy. You place the three pieces of candy, say, on a table, some little distance apart. Ask the people to notice that there are three pieces, and then place a cap over each piece. Remove, the cap from the first piece of candy, and, asking the audience to watch you closely, take up the piece of candy and proceed to eat it Don't forget to put the cap back on the table just as it was when the candy was under it. Now take up the second cap and eat the candy as before, be-fore, and finally the third one in the same way. Having placed the caps again just as they were at the beginning be-ginning ask the audience which one of the caps they would like to see the three pieces of candy under. Whichever one they say, take up that cap, put it on your head, and ask them if they don't think that the candy is under that cap. Will He Enter the Cage? form it, or, rather, can make it perform per-form itself, and it will excite no end of wonder among those who try it. Take an ordinary sheet of paper and on it draw as well as you can a picture of an empty bird cage, and near it on the right, a picture of a bird. No particular skill is needed, but the better the pictures are drawn the more natural, of course, will very thing appear. Now say to the spectators for we are assuming that your are performing perform-ing the trick for the amusement of 1 a company that you can and will |