Modern magic : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. . ing the pack upright in his right hand, thethumb on one side, and the third and fourthfingers on the other, with the face of the pack tothe audience (see Fig. 45), he causes the cardsto rise one by one by pushing them up from theback by an alternate movement of the first andsecond fingers (which should previously beslightly moistened). If the face of the cards isheld fairly to the spectators, it will be impossiblefor them to discover that the cards do not risefrom the middle of the pack. We have been more prolix than we could have
Modern magic : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. . ing the pack upright in his right hand, thethumb on one side, and the third and fourthfingers on the other, with the face of the pack tothe audience (see Fig. 45), he causes the cardsto rise one by one by pushing them up from theback by an alternate movement of the first andsecond fingers (which should previously beslightly moistened). If the face of the cards isheld fairly to the spectators, it will be impossiblefor them to discover that the cards do not risefrom the middle of the pack. We have been more prolix than we could have desired in thedescription of this trick, but minute details are the very soul of con-juring. The experience of Horace, Brevis esse laboro, olscurusfaapplies with peculiar force to the magic art; and if we occasionallyirritate the reader of quick apprehension by too great minuteness, hemust remember that we have, as far as we can, to anticipate everypossible question, and that a single point left unexplained may renderuseless an otherwise careful Fig. 45. The Jumping Cards.—Two or three Card* hwing been DRAWN, RETURNED, AND SHUFFLED TO MAKE THEM JUMP GUT OF the Pack.—This trick is somewhat similar in working to that of thorising cards as performed in the hand, which we have just course of the two tricks is precisely the same up to the pointwhen, the two or three cards having been drawn and returned;, you MODERN MAGIC. have got them all to the top of the pack. Here, however, the resem-blance ceases. In the present case you drop the whole pack into anopen-mouthed box, made for that purpose, and announce that, althoughthe chosen cards have been replaced in different parts of the pack, andthe whole have since been thoroughly shuffled, you have only to blowupon them in order to separate them visibly from the rest of the blow upon the box accordingly, when the chosen cards in-stantly fly out of the pack, rising to a height of three or four feet
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