Modern magic : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. . e coin is thus left in thehand farthest away from the spectators, and the performer has thebenefit of the cover of the body in dropping it into the pochette, orotherwise disposing of it. The student will here, as In card conjuring, find great advan-tage in practising before a looking-glass, before which he should,in the first place, actually do that which he afterwards pretends to do,and carefully notice the positions and motions of his hands in thefirst case, which he should then do his best to simulate, that theremay be as little
Modern magic : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. . e coin is thus left in thehand farthest away from the spectators, and the performer has thebenefit of the cover of the body in dropping it into the pochette, orotherwise disposing of it. The student will here, as In card conjuring, find great advan-tage in practising before a looking-glass, before which he should,in the first place, actually do that which he afterwards pretends to do,and carefully notice the positions and motions of his hands in thefirst case, which he should then do his best to simulate, that theremay be as little difference as possible between the pretence and thereality. He should further accustom himself always to follow withhis eyes the hand in which the object is supposed to be, this being themost certain means of leading the eyes and the minds of his audiencein the same direction. When he is able to perform the passes neatlywith a single florin or penny, he should then practise with coins ofsmaller size, with two coins at once, and afterwards with three Fig. 74. MODERN MAGIC. A word of caution may here be desirable. These passes mustby no means be regarded as being themselves tricks, but only asprocesses to be used in the performance of tricks. If the operator,after pretending to pass the coin, say, from the right hand to the left,and showing that it had vanished from the left hand, were to allowhis audience to discover that it had all along remained in his righthand, they might admire the dexterity with which he had in thisinstance deceived theii eyes, but they would henceforth guess half thesecret of any trick in which palming was employed. If it is neces-sary immediately to reproduce the coin, the performer should do soby appearing to find it in the hair or whiskers of a spectator, or inany other place that may suit his purpose, remembering always toindicate beforehand that it has passed to such a place, thereby divert-ing the general attention from himself. As the coi
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