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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
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A
word
of
caution
may
here
be
desirable.
These
passes
must
by
no
means
be
regarded
as
being
themselves
tricks,
but
only
as
processes
to
be
used
in
the
performance
of
tricks.
If
the
operator,
after
pretending
to
pass
the
coin,
say,
from
the
right
hand
to
the
left,
and
showing
that
it
had
vanished
from
the
left
hand,
were
to
allow
his
audience
to
discover
that
it
had
all
along
remained
in
his
right
hand,
they
might
admire
the
dexterity
with
which
he
had
in
this
instance
deceived
their
eyes,
but
they
would
henceforth
guess
half
the
secret
of
any
trick
in
which
palming
was
employed.
If
it
is
necessary
immediately
to
reproduce
the
coin,
the
performer
should
do
so
by
appearing
to
find
it
in
the
hair
or
whiskers
of
a
spectator,
or
in
any
other
place
that
may
suit
his
purpose,
remembering
always
to
indicate
beforehand
that
it
has
passed
to
such
a
place,
thereby
diverting
the
general
attention
from
himself.
As
the
coin
is
already
in
his
hand,
he
has
only
to
drop
it
to
his
finger-tips
as
the
hand
reaches
the
place
he
has
named,
in
order,
to
all
appearance,
to
take
it
from
thence.
Having
given
this
little
piece
of
advice
as
to
the
hand
in
which
the
coin
actually
is,
we
must
add
a
few
words
more
as
to
the
hand
in
which
it
is
not.
Whenever
you
have
(apparently)
placed
any
article
either
in
the
closed
hand,
or
in
some
piece
of
apparatus
from
which
it
is
afterwards
to
disappear,
you
should
not,
as
a
rule,
show
that
the
article
has
departed
from
the
spot
where
you
have
apparently
placed
it,
without
interposing
some
magical
process,
however
slight,
which
may
colourably
account
for
its
disappearance.
A
mere
nothing
will
suffice--a
touch
of
the
wand,
the
pronouncing
of
a
magic
formula,
the
pressure
of
a
finger;
but
in
some
form
or
other
the
ceremony
should
never
be
omitted.
Thus,
to
take
a
very
simple
example,
we
will
suppose
that
by
means
of
Pass
1
you
have
apparently
placed
in
the
left
hand
a
coin,
which
really
remains
in
the
palm
of
the
right.
If
you
at
once
open
the
left
hand,
and
show
that
the
coin
is
not
there,
the
spectators
will
naturally
jump
to
the
correct
explanation,
viz.,
that
you
did
not,
in
reality,
put
the
coin
there
at
all.
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