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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
234
While
the
articles
above
mentioned
are
being
collected
from
the
audience,
you
secretly
palm
in
your
left
hand
a
penny
of
your
own.
Receiving
the
borrowed
coins
in
your
right
hand,
apparently
transfer
them
to
the
left,
but
really
only
transfer
the
florin,
the
marked
penny
remaining
in
your
right
hand.
This
may
be
effected
by
making
Pass
2
with
the
marked
penny,
at
the
same
time
allowing
the
marked
florin
to
drop
from
the
palm
as
directed
in
Change
3.
Take
the
earliest
opportunity
of
transferring
the
marked
penny
to
the
palm
of
the
right
hand,
and
showing
the
marked
florin
and
the
substitute
penny
(which
the
spectators
take
to
be
the
genuine
one)
on
the
open
left
hand,
place
them
on
your
table,
begging
the
audience
to
observe
that
they
do
not
for
one
moment
leave
their
sight.
Then
picking
up
with
the
right
hand
the
florin,
on
which
you
may
casually
show
the
mark,
and
throwing
one
of
the
borrowed
handkerchiefs
over
the
hand,
take
hold
(through
the
handkerchief)
of
apparently
the
florin
which
you
have
just
shown,
but
really
of
the
marked
penny,
and
transfer
the
marked
florin
to
the
palm.
The
shape
of
the
coin,
which
the
audience
take
to
be
the
florin,
will
be
distinctly
seen
through
the
handkerchief,
whose
folds
will
fall
down
around
it.
Give
the
handkerchief
containing
the
coin
to
some
person,
requesting
him
to
hold
it
tightly
just
below
the
coin,
and
well
above
his
head,
that
all
may
see
it.[J]
Now
take
up
the
substitute
penny,
and
apparently
wrap
it,
in
like
manner,
in
the
second
handkerchief,
really
substituting
as
before
the
coin
concealed
in
your
palm.
The
substitute
penny,
which
remains
in
your
right
hand,
you
must
drop
into
your
pochette
or
profonde
at
the
first
available
opportunity.
Give
the
second
handkerchief
to
another
person
to
hold.
The
first
handkerchief
now,
to
all
appearance,
contains
the
florin,
and
the
second
the
penny.
Invite
the
two
persons
to
stand
face
to
face,
the
hands
holding
the
handkerchiefs
just
touching,
and
after
gravely
cautioning
them
to
hold
very
tight,
etc.,
etc.,
give
their
hands
a
gentle
rap
with
your
wand,
saying,
“Change!”
Upon
examination,
the
coins
are
found
to
have
obeyed
your
commands.
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