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table, a piece of stick, and a pail, and the 

 proposition is, how can that pail be hung to the 

 edge of this table ? It is to be done, and can 

 you at all anticipate what arrangement I shall 

 make to enable me to succeed ? Why this. I 

 take a stick, and put it in the pail between the 

 bottom and the horizontal piece of wood, and 

 thus give it a stiff handle, and there it is ; and 

 what is more, the more water I put into the 

 pail the better it will hang. It is very true 

 that before I quite succeeded I had the misfor- 

 tune to push the bottoms of several pails out ; 

 but here it is hanging firmly (fig. 9), and you 



Fig. 9. 



now see how you can hang up the pail in the 

 way which the conjuring books require. 



