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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
193
There
is
a
mode
of
performing
the
trick
of
the
rising
cards
entirely
without
apparatus,
and
without
the
necessity
of
forcing
particular
cards.
The
performer
in
this
case
invites
a
person
to
draw
a
card,
and
when
it
is
returned
makes
the
pass
to
bring
it
to
the
top
of
the
pack.
He
then
makes
a
false
shuffle,
leaving
it
on
the
top,
and
offers
the
pack
to
a
second
person
to
draw.
When
he
has
done
so,
and
before
he
replaces
the
card,
the
performer
makes
the
pass
to
bring
the
card
first
drawn
to
the
middle,
so
that
the
second
card
is
placed
upon
it,
and
then
again
makes
the
pass
to
bring
both
together
to
the
top.
The
process
may
be
repeated
with
a
third
card.
The
three
cards
are
thus
left
at
the
top
of
the
pack,
that
last
drawn
being
the
outermost.
The
performer
now
asks
each
person,
beginning
with
the
last
who
drew,
to
name
his
card,
and,
holding
the
pack
upright
in
his
right
hand,
the
thumb
on
one
side,
and
the
third
and
fourth
fingers
on
the
other,
with
the
face
of
the
pack
to
the
audience
(see
Fig.
45),
he
causes
the
cards
to
rise
one
by
one
by
pushing
them
up
from
the
back
by
an
alternate
movement
of
the
first
and
second
fingers
(which
should
previously
be
slightly
moistened).
If
the
face
of
the
cards
is
held
fairly
to
the
spectators,
it
will
be
impossible
for
them
to
discover
that
the
cards
do
not
rise
from
the
middle
of
the
pack.
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