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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
238
You
now
announce
that
you
are
about
to
make
both
coins
pass
into
one
handkerchief.
Advancing
to
the
person
who
holds
the
first
handkerchief,
you
request
him,
still
maintaining
his
hold,
to
remove
his
hand
four
or
five
inches
below
the
coin,
to
give
you
room
to
operate.
First
showing
that
your
hand
is
empty,
you
gently
rub
the
substitute
penny
through
the
handkerchief
between
your
finger
and
thumb,
when,
being
only
wrapped
within
a
fold,
it
quickly
falls
into
your
hand.
No
one
ever
thinks
of
inquiring
at
this
point
whether
it
is
the
marked
one
or
not.
Taking
it
in
the
left
hand,
in
position
for
Pass
4,
you
say
to
the
person
holding
the
second
handkerchief
“Having
extracted
this
penny
from
the
one
handkerchief,
I
will
now
pass
it
into
the
other.
I
won’t
even
touch
the
handkerchief,
but
will
simply
take
the
coin
in
my
hand,
and
say,
‘Pass!’
Will
you
be
good
enough,
at
the
word
‘pass,’
to
let
go
of
the
coin
you
are
holding,
but
still
keep
hold
of
the
handkerchief
with
the
other
hand.”
Appearing,
by
Pass
4,
to
take
the
penny
in
the
right
hand,
you
open
that
hand
with
a
quick
motion
towards
the
handkerchief,
saying,
“Pass!”
The
person
holding
the
handkerchief
looses
his
hold,
as
directed,
when
the
two
coins
are
heard
to
chink
together,
as
though
the
second
coin
had
just
arrived
in
the
handkerchief,
and
on
examination
they
are,
of
course,
found
to
be
those
marked.
We
may
here
describe
another
and
still
neater
mode
(the
invention,
we
believe,
of
M.
Robert-Houdin)
of
apparently
wrapping
a
coin
securely
in
a
handkerchief,
though
really
only
covered
by
an
outer
fold.
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