Modern magic : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. . ed. We have had occasion more thanonce to direct you to turn round thecards, and it will be well for you toknow how to do this neatly and withoutexciting suspicion. Hold the four cards fanwise in the left hand, theringers behind and the thumb in front of the cards. Having exhibitedthem, turn their faces towards yourself, and with the thumb and fingerof the right hand close the fan, and taking them by their upper endslay them face downwards on the table. Their lower ends will nowbe away from you, and when you desire again to exhibit
Modern magic : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. . ed. We have had occasion more thanonce to direct you to turn round thecards, and it will be well for you toknow how to do this neatly and withoutexciting suspicion. Hold the four cards fanwise in the left hand, theringers behind and the thumb in front of the cards. Having exhibitedthem, turn their faces towards yourself, and with the thumb and fingerof the right hand close the fan, and taking them by their upper endslay them face downwards on the table. Their lower ends will nowbe away from you, and when you desire again to exhibit the cards(in a transformed condition), you have only to turn them over side-ways, and pick them up by the ends which are now directed towardsyou. This little artifice (which is simplicity itself in practice, thougha little difficult to describe) must be carefully studied, as uponneat manipulation in this respect the illusion of the trick mainlydepends. A Card having been Drawn ^nd Returned, and the Pack SHUFFLED, TO MAKE XT ArPEAR AT SUCH NUMBER AS THE CoM-. FlG. 40. 74 MODERN MAGIC. pany Choose.*—Invite a person to draw a card. Spread out the packthat he may replace it, and slip your little ringer above it. Make thepass in order to bring the chosen card to the top; palm it, and offerthe pack to be shuffled. When the pack is returned to you, replacethe chosen card on the top, and make the first of the false shufflesabove described, but commence by sliding off into the right hand thetwo top cards (instead of the top card only), so that the chosen cardmay, after the shuffle, be last but one from the bottom. Take thepack face downwards in the left hand, and carelessly move about thepack so that the bottom card may be full in view of the at what number the company would like the card to appear jand when they have made their decision, hold the pack face down-wards, and with the first and second fingers of the right handdraw away the cards from the bottom one by o
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