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Show Second Sight on a Bicycle Track. Tho rulo that govorns this little circular bicycle track Is a very simple one, nnd yot thoro seems to bo a roys-tory roys-tory about tho wny In which It works. Let the ono who plays tho trick, and whom wo will call tho station master. Try It and see. Tho secret of tho trick, oxplnlns tho Pittsburg Dispatch, Is as slmplo ns tho rulo thnt governs tho track. All tho station innstor, therefore, has to do Is to count along, In an opposite direction from that in A Game wit h a Trick. go awny to somo placo from which ho cannot see what you do. Start an Imaginary bicycle nlong tho track at any station marked by n Hag. Begin-nlng Begin-nlng with tho numbor on tho disk opposite op-posite tho flag at which you start (Bay eight at tho bottom of tho Illustration), Illustra-tion), nnd calling tho next Btntlon "nlno" (oven though It Is mnrkod three, If you nro counting to tho right), count tho stations ns you pass thorn. Co as far as you pleaBO, then return, stopping when tho number of lings you havo passed coming back reaches tho samo number as that at which you stopped In going forward, nnd tho station sta-tion innstor, on being shown tho station sta-tion from which nnd tho dlicctlon In which you started, will bo ablo to tell you where you finished your return Journey. Hegln, for Instnnco, nt station eight, at tho bottom of tho (Must ration ; call this stntlon (as It Is marked) "eight," tho next, say to tho right, "nlno" (nover mind what it is marked), and 10 on until yon havo gono forward ns far aa you caro to (say until you havo counted to 10, thnt is, nt tho disk five nt the right, nenr tho top. Now return, calling tho ling from which you start back ngiiin "ono," nnd reckoning each flag you pass nB an additional ono until you liavo counted a numbor equal to that at which you left olT In going forward for-ward (namely ID), and tho station innstor will astonish you by telling you thnt your courso Is finished at tho disk In this caso marked soven, at tho uppor left. which you say you started off, n ninny stntlons ns aro Indicated by the number on tho disk opposite tho ling at which you began your courso In clmlo thnt Initial station In tho count If thero woro only ono starting point tho finish would nlwnys occur nt the snmo Btntlon; hut as any starting station sta-tion nt will may bo used, tho trick inny bo mndo to appear moro confusing. confus-ing. If, Instead of olght or any othei number, you should call tho station from which you start "ono," and count forward any numbor, and tho snmo number buck again, you would, of courso, bring up nt your Blurting point; whorens if you call tho stntlon from which you begin your run "eight" (or any other numbor, depending depend-ing upon tho station from which you chooso to atnrt), you will pass It on your return, and go boyond It eight or ns ninny rilntlons as will equal tho numbor of your Blurting point. |
