Two courtiers, anxious to ascertain who should succeed the Emperor Valens on the throne, employed a kind of magic instrument, resembling the modern psychograph, and succeeded in deciphering the letters Theod.

Plying the magic instrument, first on one side and then on the other alternately, she darted along the surface of the water with inconceivable velocity.

One of them directed his glass so sharply at me, that I was almost blinded by the shine of the magic instrument.

"I think I can arrange for you to hear," muttered the Wizard of Oz, and taking a queer magic instrument from his pocket, he whispered "Aohbeeobbuy."

I then possess a magic instrument, and I forget the holy Lord.