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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
174
You
may,
if
you
please,
use
allegorical
instead
of
caricature
portraits;
e.g.,
for
a
young
lady,
a
rose-bud;
for
a
conceited
young
man,
a
poppy
or
dandelion,
or
a
donkey’s
head.
It
is
hardly
necessary
to
observe
that
nothing
short
of
very
close
intimacy
would
excuse
the
use
of
any
portrait
of
a
disparaging
or
satirical
nature.
A
CARD
HAVING
BEEN
DRAWN
AND
RETURNED,
AND
THE
PACK
SHUFFLED,
TO
PLACE
ON
THE
TABLE
SIX
ROWS
OF
SIX
CARDS
EACH,
AND
TO
DISCOVER
THE
CHOSEN
CARD
BY
A
THROW
OF
THE
DICE.--The
effect
of
this
surprising
trick
is
as
follows:--You
invite
a
person
to
draw
a
card,
allowing
him
the
utmost
freedom
of
selection.
You
allow
the
drawer
to
replace
his
card
in
any
part
of
the
pack
he
pleases,
and
you
thoroughly
shuffle
the
cards,
finally
inviting
him
to
“cut.”
Then
dealing
out
six
rows
of
six
cards
each,
face
downwards
on
the
table,
you
offer
the
drawer
a
dice-box
and
a
pair
of
dice,
and
after
he
has
thrown
any
number
of
times
to
satisfy
himself
that
the
dice
are
fair
and
unprepared,
you
invite
him
to
throw
each
singly,
the
first
to
ascertain
the
row
in
which
his
card
is,
and
the
second
to
discover
at
what
number
it
stands
in
the
row.
He
throws,
say,
“six”
first,
and
“three”
afterwards,
and
on
examination
the
card
he
drew
proves
to
be
the
third
card
of
the
sixth
row.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
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