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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
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We
have
been
more
prolix
than
we
could
have
desired
in
the
description
of
this
trick,
but
minute
details
are
the
very
soul
of
conjuring.
The
experience
of
Horace,
“Brevis
esse
laboro,
obscurus
fio,”
applies
with
peculiar
force
to
the
magic
art;
and
if
we
occasionally
irritate
the
reader
of
quick
apprehension
by
too
great
minuteness,
he
must
remember
that
we
have,
as
far
as
we
can,
to
anticipate
every
possible
question,
and
that
a
single
point
left
unexplained
may
render
useless
an
otherwise
careful
description.
THE
JUMPING
CARDS.--TWO
OR
THREE
CARDS
HAVING
BEEN
DRAWN,
RETURNED,
AND
SHUFFLED
TO
MAKE
THEM
JUMP
OUT
OF
THE
PACK.--This
trick
is
somewhat
similar
in
working
to
that
of
the
rising
cards
as
performed
in
the
hand,
which
we
have
just
described.
The
course
of
the
two
tricks
is
precisely
the
same
up
to
the
point
when,
the
two
or
three
cards
having
been
drawn
and
returned,
you
have
got
them
all
to
the
top
of
the
pack.
Here,
however,
the
resemblance
ceases.
In
the
present
case
you
drop
the
whole
pack
into
an
open-mouthed
box,
made
for
that
purpose,
and
announce
that,
although
the
chosen
cards
have
been
replaced
in
different
parts
of
the
pack,
and
the
whole
have
since
been
thoroughly
shuffled,
you
have
only
to
blow
upon
them
in
order
to
separate
them
visibly
from
the
rest
of
the
pack.
You
blow
upon
the
box
accordingly,
when
the
chosen
cards
instantly
fly
out
of
the
pack,
rising
to
a
height
of
three
or
four
feet,
and
fall
on
the
table.
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