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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
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We
must
not
omit
to
mention
that
there
is
a
mode
of
performing
the
“torn
card”
trick
in
which
the
use
of
the
mechanical
card
is
dispensed
with.
In
this
case
the
performer
secretly
takes
an
ordinary
card,
say
the
knave
of
spades,
and
tears
off
one
corner,
which
he
carefully
preserves.
The
card
thus
mutilated
he
places
in
a
card-box,
or
other
similar
piece
of
apparatus.
Pack
in
hand,
he
advances
to
the
company,
and
“forces”
the
knave
of
spades,
having,
meanwhile,
the
little
corner
piece
of
the
concealed
card
hidden
between
the
second
and
third
fingers
of
his
right
hand.
The
card
having
been
drawn,
he
requests
the
drawer
to
tear
it
up,
and
place
the
pieces
on
a
plate,
which
he
hands
him
for
that
purpose.
Having
received
the
pieces,
he
says
carelessly,
“You
had
better
keep
one
piece
for
the
purpose
of
identification;”
and,
so
saying,
hands
him
apparently
one
of
the
fragments
of
the
card
just
torn,
but
really
the
concealed
corner
piece,
which
he
drops
from
his
hand
on
the
plate
for
that
purpose
in
the
very
act
of
picking
up.
The
trick
then
proceeds
as
already
described
up
to
the
finding
of
the
card
partially
restored,
in
which
condition
it
is
handed
to
the
drawer,
and
its
identity
proved
by
showing
that
the
torn
edge
exactly
corresponds
with
the
corner
retained.
The
trick
may
either
end
here,
or,
by
using
a
second
card-box,
card-tripod,
or
the
like,
the
card
and
corner
may
be
again
changed
for
a
complete
card.
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