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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
119
We
have
described
the
trick
as
performed
with
the
aces,
but
the
effect
will,
of
course,
be
the
same
with
four
kings,
four
queens,
or
any
other
four
similar
cards.
HAVING
PLACED
THE
FOUR
ACES
IN
DIFFERENT
POSITIONS
IN
THE
PACK,
TO
MAKE
THE
TWO
BLACK
CHANGE
PLACES
WITH
THE
TWO
RED
ONES,
AND
FINALLY
TO
BRING
ALL
FOUR
TOGETHER
IN
THE
MIDDLE
OF
THE
PACK.--This
trick
may
immediately
follow
that
last
described.
Again
selecting
the
four
aces
(or
such
other
four
cards
as
you
used
for
the
last
trick),
and
placing
them
on
the
table,
take
the
two
red
ones,
and
opening
the
pack
bookwise
in
the
left
hand,
ostentatiously
place
them
in
the
middle,
at
the
same
time
secretly
slipping
your
little
finger
between
them.
Ask
the
audience
to
particularly
notice
which
of
the
aces
are
placed
in
the
middle,
and
which
at
top
and
bottom.
Next
place
one
of
the
black
aces
on
the
top,
and
then
turning
over
the
pack
by
extending
your
left
hand,
place
the
remaining
black
ace
at
the
bottom.
As
you
again
turn
over
the
pack
to
its
former
position,
make
the
pass,
which
the
movement
of
the
pack
in
turning
over
in
the
hand
will
be
found
to
facilitate.
The
two
halves
of
the
pack
having
now
changed
places,
the
aces
will,
naturally,
have
changed
their
positions
also,
the
two
black
ones
now
being
in
the
middle,
and
the
two
red
ones
at
top
and
bottom;
but
it
would
be
very
indiscreet
to
allow
the
audience
to
know
that
this
is
already
the
case.
As
has
been
already
mentioned,
when
a
given
change
has
taken
or
is
about
to
take
place,
you
should
always
seek
to
mislead
the
spectators
as
to
the
time
of
the
change,
as
they
are
thereby
the
less
likely
to
detect
the
mode
in
which
it
is
effected.
In
accordance
with
this
principle,
you
should
endeavour
in
the
present
case
to
impress
firmly
upon
the
minds
of
your
audience
that
the
cards
are
as
they
have
seen
you
place
them;
and
for
that
purpose
it
is
well
to
ask
some
one
to
say
over
again,
for
the
general
satisfaction,
in
what
parts
of
the
pack
the
four
aces
are.
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