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standing on end. In reality he had a piece of thin black cotton fastened to the knees of his pants, and when he spread his knees apart, the cotton, drawing taut, supported the broom. By slackening it a little the broom swayed and tottered, and renewed passes were necessary to return it to its former position.
The trick is rediculously easy and would only take in children and the simplest of men and women. It quite impressed this audience, anyhow, and they regard him now as being in league with the devil. Whenever he takes out his thermometer the children run for their lives and even the elder people regard him with apprehension.
At present I am writing at our little home in ........ . Madame and the three youngsters are clustered round the hearth and my friend

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