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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
188
These
apparently
surprising
effects
are
produced
by
very
simple
means.
In
the
first
place,
the
cards
which
rise
from
the
pack
are
not
those
actually
drawn,
but
duplicates
of
them,
arranged
beforehand.
The
performer
ensures
the
corresponding
cards
being
drawn
by
using
a
forcing
pack,
made
up
of
repetitions
of
the
three
cards
in
question,
which
we
will
suppose
to
be
the
queen
of
spades,
the
ten
of
hearts,
and
the
seven
of
diamonds,
with
some
other
single
card
at
the
bottom.
The
tin
case,
in
the
original
form
of
the
trick,
has
two
compartments--the
one
to
the
front
being
large
enough
to
hold
a
complete
pack,
but
the
hinder
one
adapted
to
contain
six
or
eight
cards
only.
In
this
hinder
compartment
are
placed
six
cards,
three
of
them
being
those
which
are
intended
to
rise,
and
the
other
three
indifferent
cards.
A
black
silk
thread
is
fastened
to
the
upper
edge
of
the
partition
between
the
two
compartments,
and
is
thence
brought
under
the
foremost
card
(which
is,
say,
the
queen
of
spades),
over
the
next
(an
indifferent
card),
under
the
third
(the
ten
of
hearts),
over
the
fourth
(an
indifferent
card),
under
the
fifth
(the
seven
of
diamonds),
over
the
sixth
(an
indifferent
card),
finally
passing
out
through
a
minute
hole
at
the
bottom
of
the
hinder
compartment.
If
the
thread
be
pulled,
the
three
cards
named
will
rise
in
succession,
beginning
with
the
hindmost--viz.,
the
seven
of
diamonds.
The
three
indifferent
cards
are
put
in
as
partitions,
or
fulcrums,
for
the
thread
to
run
over.
If
these
partitions
were
omitted,
the
three
chosen
cards
would
rise
all
together.
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