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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
159
SEVERAL
CARDS
HAVING
BEEN
FREELY
CHOSEN
BY
THE
COMPANY,
RETURNED
AND
SHUFFLED,
AND
THE
PACK
PLACED
IN
A
PERSON’S
POCKET,
TO
MAKE
SUCH
PERSON
DRAW
OUT
ONE
BY
ONE
THE
CHOSEN
CARDS.--This
trick
is
an
especial
favourite
of
the
well-known
Herrmann,
in
whose
hands
it
never
fails
to
produce
a
brilliant
effect.
The
performer
hands
the
pack
to
one
of
the
company,
who
is
requested
to
shuffle
it
well,
and
then
to
invite
any
four
persons
each
to
draw
a
card.
This
having
been
done,
the
pack
is
returned
to
the
performer,
who
then
requests
the
same
person
to
collect
the
chosen
cards
face
downwards
on
his
open
palm.
The
cards
so
collected
are
placed
in
the
middle
of
the
pack,
which
is
then
handed
to
the
person
who
collected
them,
with
a
request
that
he
will
shuffle
them
thoroughly.
After
he
has
done
so,
the
pack
is
placed
by
the
performer
in
the
volunteer
assistant’s
breast-pocket.
The
performer
now
asks
one
of
the
four
persons
who
drew
to
name
his
card.
He
next
requests
the
person
assisting
him
to
touch
the
end
of
his
wand,
and
then
as
quickly
as
possible
(that
the
mystic
influence
may
not
have
time
to
evaporate)
to
put
his
hand
in
his
pocket,
and
draw
out
the
card
named.
He
takes
out
one
card
accordingly,
which
proves
to
be
the
very
one
called
for.
A
second
and
third
card
are
named
and
drawn
in
the
same
manner,
to
the
astonishment
of
all,
and
not
least
of
the
innocent
assistant.
The
fourth
and
last
card,
which
is,
say,
the
ten
of
spades,
he
is
requested
to
look
for
in
the
pack,
but
it
proves
to
be
missing,
and
the
performer
thereupon
offers
to
show
him
how
to
make
a
ten
of
spades.
To
do
so,
he
requests
him
to
blow
into
his
pocket,
where
the
missing
card
is
immediately
found.
But
he
has,
unfortunately,
blown
too
strongly,
and
has
made
not
only
a
ten
of
spades,
but
a
host
of
other
cards,
which
the
performer
pulls
out
in
quantities,
not
only
from
his
pocket,
but
from
the
inside
of
his
waistcoat--ultimately
producing
a
final
shower
from
his
nose.
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