This choice: Tom runs up on stage faster than he's ever moved before. • Go Back...Chapter #4CLASSIC METAMORPHOSIS. by: Unknown Everyone else in the theater laughed at the eagerness with which Tom ran upon stage. Alexandra The Great, most of all.
"So, your Tom
. Right?"
"Yes, ma'am!"
"Please! 'Call me Alexandra Yes, ma'am' was my mother's name."
She paused to let the audience laugh again before continuing.
"This first illusion is known as the Substitution Trunk or Metamorphosis. You and my regular assistant, Zelda, will handcuff and blindfold me before putting me in this gunny sack and, then, this trunk. Zelda will then padlock the trunk before handing you the key. When she does that, she'll ask you to hop up on top of the trunk after which she'll hand you a large white bed sheet. She'll then ask you to cover yourself with the sheet before you and she count to three together. Upon reaching 'three,' she'll pull it off of you. And that's when you'll see the interesting new spin I've put on this classic. Ready?"
Tom nodded so eagerly Alexandra had to laugh once again: "Careful, cutie! You'll get whiplash moving your head up and down like that. Zelda! Would you join us, please?"
Whereupon, a fifteen year-old girl (short hair just as dark brown as her eyes) came out on stage wearing a sleeveless sequined black leotard with matching moccasins. She then did just as Alexandra had said she would. Although, not until the latter had put her top hat on Tom's head.
"Just temporarily, of course," she added (much to everyone's amusement).
Two minutes later, Alexandra was secured inside the gunny sack inside the trunk. Tom then climbed on to the top of the trunk before covering himself with the bed sheet as instructed.
"OK, Tom," said Zelda: "Let's start the count-down."
"ONE!" they chorused: "TWO!"
Upon reaching that number, however, Tom suddenly felt the top hat pushed down over his eyes. Followed immediately by his mouth and nose being gagged with a handkerchief...soaked in chloroform.
Zelda then shouted: "THREE!"
That's when she pulled the bed sheet up and away. Revealing Alexandra The Great standing all alone. Her top hat back on her head. And the padlocked trunk gone...along with Tom.
Naturally, everyone gave her a standing ovation. Especially after pointing to the formerly empty seat beside Mr. Winslow.. The wealthy attorney turned as indicated and gasped. Tom had somehow snuck back into the front row without anybody (least of all his father) seeing him!
The rest of the magic show went as expected. Following which, Mr. Winslow told everyone to meet him and Tom back at his house for the remainder of the birthday party. Never once suspecting that the real Tom...was handcuffed and gagged inside the gunny sack inside the padlocked trunk.
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