Sir, - Sleight-of-hand experts depend on distraction and greedy expectation to achieve their selfish and often hidden objectives. The gullible and blinkered are easily distracted by the promise of unreasonable reward.
But this simple stratagem we have been deprived of Articles 2 and 3. - Yours, etc.,
Colman O Mahony, Bellevue Terrace, Monkstown, Co Cork.