number of borrowed coins are dropped, audibly, into a tumbler on the table; the tumbler is then covered with a borrowed handkerchief and placed on one side of the room. Another empty tumbler, covered in a similar way with a second borrowed handkerchief, is now placed on the opposite side of the room. These arrangements made, the coins are commanded to pass from the one tumbler to the other, the command being instantly obeyed. Finally the handkerchiefs are removed and the transposition seen to have actually taken place. The secret lies in the use of a Third tumbler placed in readiness on the servante, immediately behind the one on the table, into which the coins are actually dropped. When about to commence the trick, the performer makes the pass known as the "Tourniquet" (from the right hand), (see "[[a]]../stanyon1/001.htm[[aa]]Conjuring For Amateurs[[/a]]"), and when seeming to drop the coins from the left hand into tumbler on table, he really drops them from the right hand into the one on the servante. This Sleight forms a complete illusion. Immediately after the coins strike the hidden tumbler, the performer picks up the one from the table, grasping it, for obvious reasons, near the base, and covers it with a handkerchief. When covering the second tumbler (the one supposed to be empty) the performer, under cover of the handkerchief, adroitly changes it for that on the servante, and which, it will be understood, contains the coins. The conclusion of the trick now depends entirely on the dramatic element, and will be better, or worse, according to the ability of the artiste in this direction. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------