People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — Practical Slagle. [ARTICLE]

Practical Slagle.

Two queer-looking creatures sat at u table sipping their coffee. One of them, while talking, played carelessly with his spoon—a silver spoon. He turned it over and over, dropped it, picked it up again, and, last of all, when he thought nobody was looking, he stuck it into the shaft of his boot. But the other man saw it. and then, delicately lifting a spoon in his turn, he said- “ Gentlemen, shall I show you a pretty conjuring trick? I bet that I will place this spoon in my pocket (he suits the action to the word) and will take it out of this gentleman’s boot.” This he does. Whereupon gravely took up his hat, bowed to the < ompany and walked off.—N. Y. World.