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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
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Insert
the
two
of
diamonds
behind
the
eight
of
clubs,
and
lay
that
card
in
turn
on
the
table.
Close
the
cards
and
again
spread
them,
but
this
time
with
the
opposite
ends
outward,
when
they
will
appear
to
be
the
four
twos,
as
in
Fig.
38.
Again
take
in
the
eight
of
clubs
in
place
of
the
two
of
diamonds,
and
turn
round
the
supposed
two
of
hearts.
This
you
may
do
easily
and
naturally
by
remarking,
“I
must
now
touch
something
black;
my
coat-sleeve
will
do.
I
gently
pass
either
card
along
it,
thus,
and
replace
it
as
before.
The
cards
are
now
all
black
cards,”
which
they
actually
appear
to
be.
(See
Fig.
39.)
Again
substitute
the
two
of
diamonds
for
the
eight
of
clubs,
touch
any
red
object,
and
again
turn
and
spread
out
the
cards,
when
they
will
appear
to
be
all
red
cards,
as
in
Fig.
40.
Once
more
take
in
the
eight
of
clubs
in
place
of
the
two
of
diamonds,
and
replace
the
four
cards
on
the
pack,
again
making
the
pass
in
order
to
bring
the
three
prepared
cards
to
the
bottom,
and
to
leave
the
genuine
eights
on
the
top.
There
is
a
more
elaborate
form
of
this
trick
procurable
at
the
conjuring
depôts,
in
which
several
groups
of
cards
are
used
in
succession,
and
the
changes
are
proportionately
multiplied,
various
colours
and
patterns
being
produced
in
the
place
of
the
ordinary
figures
on
the
cards.
In
our
own
opinion,
the
trick
loses
rather
than
gains
by
this
greater
elaboration,
as
the
more
fanciful
changes
have
the
disadvantage
of
showing
clearly
(which
the
simpler
form
of
the
trick
does
not)
that
the
cards
used
are
not
ordinary
cards;
and
this
being
once
understood,
the
magic
of
the
trick
is
destroyed.
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