Patter for Egg & Handkerchief & Sucker Effect

I saw a fellow do a trick one time, where he used an egg. He was Scotch though and never brought an egg. Naturally an audience wouldn't have an egg. - If they did he'd probably get it - but he used to take a handkerchief like this, and he'd wave it up and down, like an ocean wave - only this isn't TIED - and the funniest thing to me was the handkerchief would disappear and he'd have an egg in it's place.

It's a simple thing darn it all. I hate to fool you so easy. I'll show you how it's done, on one condition, and that is that you don't go home and tell your friends and relatives. - I have no friends myself, JUST RELATIVES.

You see it isn't a real egg. It's just a wooden egg with a hole and you just push the handkerchief in the hole and hold the egg back to the audience and the trick is all over. Tricky? You have to watch these magicians but I wouldn't deceive you for the world - nor for the American either - I lay this handkerchief on the table because there is a lot of people who ask me what I did with the handkerchief, and I always have another like this in my side pocket, the same color, and they think I vanished it in my pocket. Clever?

Now there is only two things you want to remember when you do the trick. First you have to poke it in the hole with the first finger. Never use the second one. Always have the other on first. And you have to use silk. Cotton's too big. It won't go in the hole. Besides, the manager said I'd have to use silk because everything in here would be silk, except the chairs, they'd be SAT-IN. - And when you get it in, turn the hole so the audience can't see it, but if anyone should see it, simply have a saucer on your table, like this one, and take the egg and crack it to show you have a real egg instead of the handkerchief.