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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
154
If
you
do
not
possess
a
forcing
pack,
but
rely
upon
your
own
skill
in
forcing
with
an
ordinary
pack,
it
is
well
to
prepare
this
second
beforehand
by
placing
the
four
queens
(supposing
that
you
desire
a
queen
to
be
drawn)
at
the
bottom.
Making
the
pass
as
you
advance
to
the
company,
you
bring
these
to
the
middle
and
present
the
pack.
It
is
comparatively
easy
to
insure
one
or
other
of
four
cards
placed
together
being
drawn.
TWO
HEAPS
OF
CARDS,
UNEQUAL
IN
NUMBER,
BEING
PLACED
UPON
THE
TABLE,
TO
PREDICT
BEFOREHAND
WHICH
OF
THE
TWO
THE
COMPANY
WILL
CHOOSE.--There
is
an
old
schoolboy
trick,
which
consists
in
placing
on
the
table
two
heaps
of
cards,
one
consisting
of
seven
indifferent
cards,
and
the
other
of
the
four
sevens.
The
performer
announces
that
he
will
predict
beforehand
(either
verbally
or
in
writing)
which
of
the
two
heaps
the
company
will
choose;
and
fulfils
his
undertaking
by
declaring
that
they
will
choose
“the
seven
heap.”
This
description
will
suit
either
heap,
being
in
the
one
case
understood
to
apply
to
the
number
of
cards
in
the
heap,
in
the
other
case
to
denote
the
value
of
the
individual
cards.
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