The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 93
terquickly with the right hand, and then all that youwill have to do will be to keep the egg spinningby giving the plate its rotating motion. TO BLOW A COIN OUT OF A GLASS It would seem, I admit, a bold statement to saythat you could put a penny (or rather a cent inAmerica) in the bottom of a… … the bottom of the glass sure enough, as theysay down South; then the dollar, which is verymuch larger, is laid in so that it lies in a hori-zontal plane at some little distance above thecent. Now to get the cent past the dollar andout of the glass with the breath alone, blowsharply downward on that…
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