Fabulous Frederic

by Peggy Thorne

MY SHOW WAS terrific—right up until the last trick. I had a wooden stage, a top hat, and my uncle Herbert’s wand. I pulled quarters out of kids’ ears and a stuffed rabbit out of my hat. I read my brother Theodore’s mind. I made a stream of colored confetti shoot out of my wand, and I made a baseball float across the stage. Around twenty-five people were in the audience, most of them kids from the neighborhood. I had them on the edge of their seats. But my last trick was my greatest, my most stupendous. What I mean is, it was supposed to be great. It’s a complicated card trick I call the Color Switch. It’s not the fanciest trick I know, but from a magician’s point of…

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