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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
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You
then
continue,
“I
shall
now
take
these
sevens
(you
can
see
for
yourselves
that
I
have
not
removed
them),
and
place
them
in
different
parts
of
the
pack.”
At
the
words,
“You
can
see
for
yourselves,”
etc.,
you
take
off
the
four
top
cards,
and
show
them
fanwise.
In
reality,
three
of
them
are
eights,
but
the
fourth
and
foremost
card
being
actually
a
seven,
and
the
eighth
pip
of
each
of
the
other
cards
being
concealed
by
the
card
before
it,
and
the
audience
having,
as
they
imagine,
already
seen
the
same
cards
spread
out
fairly
upon
the
table,
there
is
nothing
to
suggest
a
doubt
that
they
are
actually
the
sevens.
(You
will
now
see
the
reason
why
it
is
necessary
to
place
uppermost
the
seven
of
the
same
suit
as
the
absent
eight.
If
you
had
not
done
so
the
seven
in
question
would
have
been
of
the
same
suit
as
one
or
other
of
the
three
sham
sevens,
and
the
audience,
knowing
that
there
could
not
be
two
sevens
of
the
same
suit,
would
at
once
see
through
the
trick.)
Again
folding
up
the
four
cards
you
insert
the
top
one
a
little
above
the
bottom
of
the
pack,
the
second
a
little
higher,
the
third
a
little
higher
still,
and
the
fourth
(which
is
a
genuine
seven)
upon
the
top
of
the
pack.
The
four
sevens,
which
are
apparently
so
well
distributed
throughout
the
pack,
are
really
together
on
the
top,
and
you
have
only
to
make
the
pass,
or,
if
you
prefer
it,
simply
cut
the
cards,
to
cause
them
to
be
found
together
in
the
centre
of
the
pack.
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