Here are more great items from
Karrell Fox. These have been excerpted from
his "Korn-fidentially Yours" book, published
by Magic Inc., and reprinted here with permission.
FUNNY BUNNY
WHERE'S THE BUNNY? Producing
a bunny from a hat has been a trademark associated
with magicians for years. However, very few
magicians perform it. The following effect is
my effort to revive this seldom-seen miracle.
EFFECT-- Magician displays
a top hat which contains a thirty-six inch silk,
this is removed and the obviously empty hat
is replaced on his table. The silk has a picture
of a top-hat with a bunny emerging from it.
Stuffing the silk into a paper bag you explain
that you are going to cause it to travel invisibly
back into the hat, the bag is torn open and
the silk has vanished. After explaining that
the silk has traveled over to the hat, You stride
over and triumphantly remove the missing silk
from the hat and display it to the audience,
BUT WAIT! Why, that's not the same silk, there's
only a top-hat painted on that one, where's
the bunny? "Oh, that is simple" replies the
mystery man. "He's still in the hat," so saying
he reaches into the hat and brings forth a live,
white, wiggling bunny! Amidst the thunderous
applause and shouts of "Bravo" he takes his
fourteen bows and rushes back-stage to collect
his five bucks for the show.
METHOD -- Load your top hat
with Ireland's bunny bundle. This is a device
which fits into any hat and allows it to be
shown empty when actually it contains a load.
Under the device put a thirty-six inch silk
with a top-hat painted on it and a small live
bunny. In the hat proper, place your regular
rabbit and hat silk. You will also need one
of the familiar double sided paper bags, for
the vanish of the first silk. The working should
now be clear. You show the top hat, remove the
silk, and place it in the bag from which it
vanishes. Then reaching under the "bunny bundle"
you bring forth the other silk, followed
VERNON, THE EDUCATED RABBIT
This would be a good follow-up
for the preceeding trick or any trick using
a live rabbit. With bunny in hand, you patter
as follows: "Ladies and gentlemen, you see before
you, the only bunny in the world with a college
education. In fact, this bunny is so smart that
he's asked me to recite his original poem for
you. it goes something like this:
Some little rabbits are born
in the field. But I wasn't born out there. I was
born in a cellar. So, I'm an "ingrown hair!" Wasn't
that cute? He would have read it for himself,
only he has a hare-lip. His mother once warned
him, "Vernon, if you keep on writing poems like
that you will grow up to be a goon." Little Vernon
replied, "Oh that's all right, Mom, `HARE TODAY
AND GOON TOMORROW.' " Vernon can do other tricks
too. For instance, tell the folks, "Vernon, what
is two and two? Come on, answer. What is two and
two? Hmmm, no wonder he doesn't know. I forgot,
he can't add, all he can do is multiply. Well,
anyway, this started out to be a card trick so
will you sir, select a card, return it, fin, I'll
shuffle the deck making sure your card is lost.
"Vernon, you look over the deck and pick out the
selected card. Do you have it?' Swell, is this
your card, sir? I'll lift Vernon up in the air
while he receives his applause, for you must admit,
you have just witnessed a hare-raising trick!"
