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Show Magic Bird and Cage. No simple little trick Is more astonishing as-tonishing than the on herein described. de-scribed. Any boy or girl can perform per-form It, or, rather, can make It perform per-form Itself, and It will cxclto 110 end of wonder among thoso who try it. Take an ordinary sheet of paper and on It draw ns well us you can a picture of an empty bird cage, and near It, on tho right, a picture of a bird. No particular skill Is needed, but tho better the plrtures nro drawn tho moro natural, of courso, will everything uppenr. Now sny to the spectators for wo aro assuming thnt your nro performing perform-ing tho trick for the amusement of ' a company that you enn and will I mako any ono of thorn, or all of them, ono at a time, see tho bird actually cntor tho cage. Of course they will laugh at you nnd say that what you propose Is ab- I mmm . 1 1 1 I inTiTTfnl Jj r Will He Enter the Cage? bird move nnd entor the plcturo of a cago? I.o V3 toll you how. Tho accompanying Illustration shows how tho picture should bo drawn; perhaps It inlsht bo as well for you to copy It. Now tako 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 tho cago aud the bird, Placa ' n cross, as shown In tho Illustration. flBVJ Set the Jar In the closet and suspend MBVJ by a string a piece of toasted cheese HBVJ over the centre of the Jar. If there JBl are any mice in the closet the bait HBVJ will attract them, but Just as soon ai HBVJ the llrst tnouie reaches the centre ot HBVJ the paper he will drop Into the Jar HBVJ and thu paper will fly back In place HBVJ uguln, ready tor the next comer. A H trap arranged in the tamo manner can JBVJ g Jftl 11 The Trap and the Mice. ASKV bo used for tho capture of field and jH harvest mice, which make odd and AVBb amusing pots. HBVJ |