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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
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A
CARD
HAVING
BEEN
SECRETLY
THOUGHT
OF
BY
ONE
OF
THE
AUDIENCE,
TO
PLACE
TWO
INDIFFERENT
CARDS
UPON
THE
TABLE,
AND
TO
CHANGE
SUCH
ONE
OF
THEM
AS
THE
AUDIENCE
MAY
SELECT
INTO
THE
CARD
THOUGHT
OF.--Arrange
your
pack
beforehand
in
such
manner
that
among
the
fifteen
or
sixteen
undermost
cards
there
may
be
only
one
court
card,
and
note
at
what
number
from
the
bottom
this
card
is.
Advance
to
the
company,
offering
the
cards
face
downwards
in
the
ordinary
way,
and
requesting
some
person
to
draw
a
card.
Then,
as
if
upon
a
second
thought,
say,
before
he
has
time
to
draw,
“Or,
if
you
prefer
it,
you
need
not
even
touch
the
cards,
but
merely
think
of
one
as
I
spread
them
before
you.”
So
saying,
spread
the
cards
one
by
one,
with
their
faces
to
the
company,
beginning
at
the
bottom.
The
single
court
card
being
conspicuous
among
so
many
plain
cards,
and
there
being
nothing
apparently
to
create
a
suspicion
of
design
about
the
arrangement
it
is
ten
to
one
that
the
person
will
note
that
particular
card,
which
we
will
suppose
to
be
the
knave
of
hearts.
When
you
have
run
over
twelve
or
fourteen
cards
in
this
way,
ask,
still
moving
on
the
cards,
“Have
you
thought
of
a
card?”
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