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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
101
Your
opponent
may
now
try
as
much
as
he
pleases,
but
he
cannot
possibly
succeed,
the
fact
being
that
the
process
above
described
produces
the
desired
effect
with
twenty-eight
cards,
but
will
not
do
so
with
thirty-two.
The
first
thought
of
your
audience
is
sure
to
be
that
you
have
abstracted
some
of
the
cards
in
order
to
make
the
trick
fail,
but
on
counting
they
find
the
number
correct.
Not
one
in
a
hundred
will
suspect
that
the
reverse
is
the
case,
and
that
when
you
performed
the
trick
the
pack
was
incomplete.
By
the
time
three
or
four
of
the
company
have
tried
and
failed,
you
will
probably
have
found
an
opportunity
of
again
pocketing
a
card
of
each
suit;
and
you
may
then
announce
that,
having
sufficiently
proved
your
power,
you
will
now
graciously
condescend
to
remove
the
prohibition,
and
allow
the
next
person
who
tries
to
succeed.
This,
of
course,
he
will
do;
and
the
trick
may
very
well
end
here,
with
the
satisfaction
on
your
part
that
you
have
kept
your
secret,
and
that,
even
when
removed
from
the
sphere
of
your
adverse
influence,
your
pupils
will
fail
in
performing
the
trick,
making
the
attempt,
as
they
naturally
will,
with
the
full
piquet
pack.
But
it
is
just
possible
that
a
contretemps
may
arise,
for
which
it
will
be
well
to
be
prepared.
Some
one
of
the
audience,
more
acute
than
the
generality,
may
suggest
again
counting
the
cards,
to
see
if
all
are
there
when
the
trick
succeeds.
Even
in
this
case
you
need
not
be
discomfitted.
At
once
offer
yourself
to
count
the
cards,
and,
gathering
them
up
for
that
purpose,
add
to
them
the
four
which
you
removed,
which
you
should
again
have
palmed
in
readiness.
Count
them
deliberately
on
to
the
table,
and,
when
every
one
is
satisfied
that
the
pack
is
complete,
announce
that
you
will
once
more
perform
the
trick,
in
order
to
let
every
one
see
that
you
actually
use
no
more
and
no
less
than
thirty-two
cards.
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