Sylvo  appears, attired as. a tramp carrying a dilapidated gladstone bag. He walks very slowly right across stage and disappears momentarily at the opposite wing, then reappears and places his bag on the stage. He takes off his gloves and blows them off stage, one to one wing and the other to opposite wing. Both gloves are, doubtless, attached to elastic, which explains his march from one wing to the other already mentioned.

     

Prior to removing gloves, he removes dummy (hollow) fingers, each with a spike, and throws them as darts, into the top of a table.

 

He strikes a match on a striker sewn onto the seat of his trousers, smokes cigar, and puts the lighted match in his pocket, vest, etc., and keeps pulling it out again still lighted. His actions suggest the match is getting warm. Duplicate matches and strikers can be arranged as required. He attempts to juggle a plate, and suddenly finds another match alight in his trousers pocket.

 

He dexterously juggles a lighted lamp on a plate.

 

He spits on the backdrop and attempts to stick his hat there. The hat falls to the floor twice, but at third attempt it remains suspended to scene, perhaps with the help of a sharp hook on a metal plate sewn to one side of the hat.

 

He spins a plate on a whip stock, lash end of whip at the bent part is balanced and spins on the edge of another plate held in his mouth. He knocks the whip away and catches the top plate, still spinning, on his finger.

 

He takes the hat off the scene. He takes his coat off, brushes it and says "it's getting sultry," puts coat on floor and wipes his boots on it.

 

He juggles with his top hat, employing dexterous twists and throws, with funny patter something after this style. "I make it a certainty (if the trick comes off) every time" (if he fails) to miss this trick sometimes, or "I always do this trick the first time" or "sometimes" as the case may be. This ruse is of course noticed and creates much merriment.