| One day, I was walking in a park with Angie. During the walk, we looked down and |
| saw a bunch of clover by the path. I said, "Do you think I could find a four leaf |
| clover?" She responded, "No way." Well, I bent over, reached down, plucked a |
| four-leaf clover from the ground, and gave it to her. |
| What does This Have to Do with Magic? |
| Many years ago when I started selling magic books, I hired an elderly woman to do my |
| bookkeeping. I came to know her son. One day he showed me his workroom. A |
| hundred or more frames adorned the walls of his room; each had a four-leaf clover in it. |
| Most were normal size. Some were more than a foot and a half in width. He had a trick |
| for seeing four leaf clovers. |
| The trick is quite simple. Most people looking for four leaf clovers scan the clover field |
| looking for one that has four leaves. When they look at the bunch, this is what they see. |
The trick is to see the clover as consisting of triangular shapes. The following |
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