Velvet Top Hat-Black/Wine

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Attend your next party as a sophisticated magician, complete with the velvet top hat.

This Top Hat goes great with our Sweet Charlie Jacket. An unbeatable combination for Halloween or Costume Party.

Velvet Top Hat-Black/Wine
$ 22.99

Hat is made of black velvet with wine colored band above rim.

Other uses for the Top Hat include:

• Jack the Ripper
• Imitating the Velvet Revolver Guitarist "Slash" (Air Guitar Optional)
• Imitating Joey Gaydos Jr.'s character Zack Mooneyham in the 2003 film "School of Rock" in the Battle of the Bands.

The Moth-Eaten Wizard

September 19, 1903 by W. M Goodes

Once upon a time, there lived a Magician who was so famous that people came from all over the world to witness his wonderful feats of magic. Among them was the Prince of India, who thought the Magician a fraud, the object of his visit being to expose him.

Being a Magician himself, he felt sure that his knowledge would enable him to expose the impostor without much difficulty. On approaching him he said:

"Most distinguished Sir, your fame has reached me in my far-distant home, and, being a student of magic, I have come that I might | perhaps learn of thee something; more, of this great art." As he I spoke, there arose from the sand a basket of the Prince's father, the King, and the Magician invited him to be seated.

The startled Prince, however, hesitated to sit on his father's thrown. The Magician, noticing his embarrassment, said again, "0 Prince, be seated; 'tis thy for thy father is no more."

The Prince, not willing to believe his father dead, and thinking the whole thing an imposition, became enraged and rushed furiously at the Magician. As he raised his hand to strike he discovered that the Magician had disappeared and in his place stood the dead King. Turning quickly, he saw that someone already sat upon the throne while he in the image of the magician had refused to occupy. Rushing upon the usurper, he would have destroyed him, but he was seized and bound by his own attendants.

As he lay there helpless, he began to realize what had happened.

The Magician in the image of the Prince sat on the throne, while he, in the image of the magician, lay helplessly bound, surely some mystic power they had changed places.

As he stared in helpless wonder he saw the sun rise up, and under it appeared a great white bird. It passed on with the basket and its occupants, then there came out of the each other until there were enough to mount all of his followers.

When all were seated in the train moved on and left him bound and helpless. Thus he lay there powerless to help himself, the hot sun beating down on him, and he soon became thin and wasted. Insects preyed on him, moths ate great holes in his garments, and in a little while he would have died, but a great storm arose and the wind and rain revived and refreshed him. He discovered that he was no longer a prisoner, the moths having eaten the cords with which he was bound, and he was able to move about.

Remembering now that he also possessed power as a Magician, he caused a great red column of fire to spring out of the earth, and soon a great multitude of people came to see what this strange sight meant. Seeing the Princes in his tattered garments, and mistaking him for the famous Magician, they called him the Moth-Eaten Wizard.

Among the crowd was the spirit of the Prince's father, the dead King, and, calling him to his side, he told him of his great misfortune. Then the spirit doubted him and would not be convinced that this miserable Moth-Eaten Wizard was his son, the Prince.

So, the Prince, remembering how proud his father used to be of his feats of magic, decided to perform one that he knew full well. He called an Arab from the crowd, and taking his turban laid it at his feet. Immediately it assumed the shape of a great roll of white silk. Then he passed his hand over the ground and there arose four immense posts. On each post was a ring and each ring was attached to the silken roll by short cords, and as they arose the silken roll arose with them.

Again passing his hand over the ground there appeared a great big basket and this was attached to the silken roll by golden ropes. As the basket arose he told the spirit of his father to enter, and he did likewise. Then were they suspended in the air under the silken roll. Severing the cords attached to the poles, the silken roll began to expand, and, it assumed the shape of a great white bird. Attached to it by the golden ropes was the basket, containing the Prince and the spirit of his father.

Then the great white bird spread its wings and soaring away through space soon took them back to their native land. There they beheld the wicked Magician sitting on the King's thrown and seizing him they bound his hand and foot and placing him in the basket, the great white bird soared away with him and, he was never seen again.

So the spirit of the Prince's father seated his son on the thrown and, advising him to never again wander from his own fireside, departed for his long home and the Prince ruled in his stead.