Show THE TIlE MAGICIANS S CASKET A Simple Little Wooden Box That Can Be Readily Beadily 2 Made ade This box beside being difficult to open has the merit of also being difficult to close when it is opened It should be beabout beabout beabout about three inches long by one Inch thick The lid consists of two pieces that turn on n a peg Deg The longer loneer piece has in it a slot twice the diameter of the peg in of which is placed placeda a shot exactly filling it as shown in figure A The smaller piece has a cay cavity ca ity over ove the shot and into which it will drop dron when the box is turned tamed up i I Of i E Et Diagram of Magicians Casket side down as in figure B At the end of the longer l mger piece Is a little notch natch fitting against a wire pin to prevent the lid from being moved sideways The thickness of piece marked A must be bo as great as the diameter of the peg so as to give room for the shot and that of B must be greater so that the cavity can be made without cut cutting cutting ting tine through it Th Tha peg when in place should have through it a wire pin so as to hold the parts tightly together and prevent their heing lifted |