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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
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Some
fun
may
also
be
created
as
follows:--You
name,
in
the
first
instance,
a
wrong
card--say
the
seven
of
hearts.
On
being
told
that
that
was
not
the
card
thought
of,
you
affect
surprise,
and
inquire
what
the
card
thought
of
was.
You
are
told,
let
us
say,
the
king
of
hearts.
“Ah,”
you
remark,
“that
settles
it;
I
felt
sure
you
were
mistaken.
You
could
not
possibly
have
seen
the
king
of
hearts,
for
you
have
been
sitting
on
that
card
all
the
evening.
Will
you
oblige
me
by
standing
up
for
a
moment,”
and,
on
the
request
being
complied
with,
you
apparently
take
the
card
(which
you
have
already
palmed)
from
off
the
chair
on
which
the
person
has
been
sitting.
The
more
shrewd
of
the
company
may
conjecture
that
you
intentionally
named
a
wrong
card
in
order
to
heighten
the
effect
of
the
trick;
but
a
fair
proportion
will
always
be
found
to
credit
your
assertion,
and
will
believe
that
the
victim
had
really,
by
some
glamour
on
your
part,
been
induced
to
imagine
he
saw
a
card
which
he
was
actually
sitting
on.
This
trick
is
frequently
performed
with
the
whole
thirty-two
cards
of
the
piquet
pack.
The
process
and
result
are
the
same,
save
that
the
card
thought
of
must
be
one
of
the
twenty-seven
cards
first
dealt.
The
chances
are
greatly
against
one
of
the
last
five
cards
being
the
card
thought
of,
but
in
such
an
event
the
trick
would
break
down,
as
it
would
in
that
case
require
four
deals
instead
of
three
to
bring
the
chosen
card
to
the
top
of
the
pack.
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