Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1892 — THE MACIC BEAN POD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE MACIC BEAN POD.

A Little Game Which Will Require Some Study. Take your knife and' make two parallel incisions in the lower part of the pod, shown in Fig. l in our illustration. Do this so that the fiber which unites the two ends will be separated, except at the extremities, as shown in Fig. 2. Scrape with your knife the inner surface of this fiber, so as to make it flexible, and then empty the pod of its beans. Make a hole in the middle of a bean (Fig. 3) large enough to allow the fiber, bent double, to pass through it. Then cut the ends of another pod, leaving intact the fiber which unites them. With these three elements, repre-

sented in Figs. 1,2, and 3, you are ready to construct the game represented in Fig. 7. Press on the ends of the first pod (Fig. 4) so as to bend it and move the fiber away from it. Then pass this fiber, bent double, through the hole in the bean (Fig. 6) so as to pass the fiber of Fig. 2 into the buckle which is formed by the fiber on the other side of the bean. Now bend back the first pod; its fiber will come out of the hole in the bean, and that of the other pod will enter by bending double. The problem is to get the bean without breaking anything.

THE MAGIC BEAN POD.