basket held in right hand

with side "B" nearest audience,

prepare to enter.

Presentation:
8. Enter carrying basket of
silks, Figure 187.
9. Advise you will vanish the
silks before the spec-
tators' very eyes.
1. Remove the three unprepared silks, pulling them one at a time
thru the holes in the basket.
2. State this method is too slow.
3. Drop two of the silks on a table, then tie the third loosely thru
the handles of the basket as if to hold it shut.
4. Holding basket in front of you (Figure 187), count to five, then
toss the bosket high into the air (as one throws a basketball),
Figure 186.
5. This action pulls the silks out of the basket and up your right
sleeve at an amazing speed. Their flight cannot possibly be
followed.
6. Catch the falling basket, untie the silk from around the
handles, then pass the basket for examination.

Prisoner silk 28

M A R C O N I C K.

Effect:
7. Performer enters, takes two silks from his pocket, then ties
them together with a knot. Displaying the knotted silks in one
hand, performer
removes a third silk from his pocket and tosses it toward the
first two. The third silk visibly becomes imprisoned between the
other two, Figure 209.

Required:
Three “24" silks (one each
red, yellow, and blue), and a length
of thin but strong transparent
catgut or nylon thread.
Preparation;
First, sew the ends of a
length of catgut to the yellow silk
as shown in Figure 189. When
diagonal corners "A" and "B" are
pulled to stretch the silk taut, the
catgut becomes taut. Then be
single knots in corners "A" and “B"
directly over the ends of the
catgut, Figure 190.
Now prepare the silk as follows,
being careful never to twist the
catgut loop.
1. Fold the yellow silk diagonally catgut to bottom, Figure 191.
2. Fold corners "A" and "B" in 3 ½" toward the center, Figure 192.
3. Fold the sides in again resulting in Figure 193.
4. Now fold the silks in half, right to left, Figure 194, forming a
long strip of silk A" wide.
5. Without disturbing the folded silk strip, open or separate the
catgut loop, Figure 195.
6. Starting at top corner "X", roll- fold (Fig. |96) the long strip
until it becomes a 3" x 4" packet, Figure 197.
7. Now tie the blue silk to the bottom loop of the catgut at point
"Y" with a single knot, leaving 2" of the blue corner above the
knot, Figure 198.
8. Starting at bottom corner (diagonally opposite corners tied to
thread) of blue silk, " roll-fold " the silk upward into a packet,
similar to the yellow one, Figure 199.
9. Place a postcard or a letter in your inside coat pocket, Figure
200. This acts as a divider or partition.
10. Taking the folded yellow silk in one hand and
 the blue in the other and being careful not to twist the catgut
loop, place both silks in the divided pocket (Figure 200), one on
each side of the card, Figure 201. Knot up, the blue silk is next to
the body.
11. Carefully tuck the catgut loop down between the card and blue
silk.
12. "Roll - fold" the red silk and place it in the outside breast
pocket of your coat, Figure 200.

Presentation:
1. Enter, show hands empty, then reach into inside coat pocket
with left hand and bring out the rolled blue silk, fingers hiding
knot.
2. Allow silk to unroll and fall into view.
3. Transfer silk to right hand, knot still hidden from view, figure
202.
4. Take red silk from outside breast coat pocket with left hand.
Allow silk to unroll so it is held by top corner.
5. Display red silk in left, blue in right, Figure 203.
6. Pretend to join the top red and blue corners with a single
knot. Instead, tie the red corner around the tip of the blue
corner and
the single strand of catgut on the right, Figures 204 -207,

7. Show the Figure 207 knot.

8. Now take the diagonally
opposite corner of the red silk
in your right hand, drop the
knot, then display the two
silks, Figure 208.
9. Place your left foot on the
lower tip of the blue silk, Fig.
208.
10. Remove the folded yellow silk
from your inside coat pocket
with your left hand.
11. Display the silk, still folded, and
 held within a foot of the
knot(s) in the other two silks.
12. Now toss the yellow silk
toward the knot(s). At the
same time pull upward on the
red silk with the right hand.
13. The two knotted silks part,
the red knot slides up the
thread, the yellow Silk opens
out quickly and becomes
knotted (?) between the
other two, Figure 209.

TAMNEN VERSION *
Lou Tannen places the yellow silk in his shirt pocket (vest
pocket if a vest is worn). This eliminates need for a card to separate
the silks (Figure 200) and the possibility of the catgut strands
becoming twisted. AS an added precaution, Lou fastens a small pin to
his shirt (or vest) over which he hangs one of the catgut strands,
Figure 210.

*COURTESY LOUIS TENNEN