. Our young folks [serial]. appear very wonderful to my readers,and be suggestive of those curious advertisements we so often see in thedaily papers, which relate to the likeness of the future husband or wifeshown, lucky numbers foretold, &c, &c. ; but there is no occult-science business about the conjurers foreknowledge ; the only science he knows anduses is the science of humbug ; and when perchance he wants to know be-. 232 Lessons in Magic. [April, forehand what cards Messrs. Smith, Brown, and Jones will draw, he makesup his mind what they shall draw, and arranges it so that they do drawth
. Our young folks [serial]. appear very wonderful to my readers,and be suggestive of those curious advertisements we so often see in thedaily papers, which relate to the likeness of the future husband or wifeshown, lucky numbers foretold, &c, &c. ; but there is no occult-science business about the conjurers foreknowledge ; the only science he knows anduses is the science of humbug ; and when perchance he wants to know be-. 232 Lessons in Magic. [April, forehand what cards Messrs. Smith, Brown, and Jones will draw, he makesup his mind what they shall draw, and arranges it so that they do drawthem; in fact he forces them to take just what he pleases, and whenyou, my young friends, have obliged some amiable conjurer, the pink ofpoliteness, by drawing any card you choose, you have, in doing this,drawn just what he chose and prearranged. Although it may seem ratherdifficult thus To Force a Card, yet it is not a very hard matter, as I will now try to explain. The cards which are to be forced are placed at the bottom of the pack,which is then shuffled in such a way as not to disturb those cards. Havingby thus shuffling the pack persuaded the audience that there is no pre-arrangement of the cards, you make the pass, and by this move bring thechosen cards into the centre of the pack. These cards, remember, are now at the bottom of the upperpacket, which overlaps theunder one, as seen in Fig. we approach the
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