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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
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THE
MULTIPLICATION
OF
MONEY.--This
is
an
old
and
favourite
trick.
It
may
be
performed
with
shillings,
pence,
or
florins,
as
may
best
suit
your
convenience.
Whichever
you
use
(we
will
suppose
florins),
you
prepare
for
the
trick
by
secretly
palming
in
the
right
hand
such
number
(say
three)
as
you
intend
to
magically
add.
Advancing
to
the
audience,
you
beg
the
loan
of
ten
or
a
dozen
florins
(the
precise
number
is
immaterial),
at
the
same
time
requesting
some
one
of
the
company
to
collect
them,
and
bring
them
to
you.
He
collects,
we
will
suppose,
twelve.
You
request
him
to
count
them
openly
upon
the
table,
that
all
may
be
able
to
verify
their
number.
This
being
done,
you
invite
a
second
person
also
to
step
forward
and
assist.
Picking
up
from
the
table
the
same
number
of
coins
as
you
have
concealed
in
your
palm,
you
give
them
to
one
of
the
two
persons
(whom
we
will
call
A)
to
hold.
Then,
taking
up
the
remaining
coins,
you
request
the
second
person
(whom
we
will
call
B)
to
take
charge
of
them.
When
he
holds
out
his
hand
to
receive
them,
you
let
fall
with
them
the
palmed
coins,
so
that
he
really
receives
twelve,
though
he
believes
that
he
has
only
nine.
You
make
him
close
his
hand,
and
hold
it
high
above
his
head.
You
then
ask
A
for
the
coins
you
entrusted
to
him.
On
his
returning
them
to
you,
you
take
them
between
the
second
finger
and
thumb
of
the
left
hand,
and
pretend
by
the
tourniquet
to
transfer
them
to
the
right,
really
getting
rid
of
them
at
the
earliest
opportunity
on
the
servante,
or
into
one
of
your
pochettes.
The
audience
believe
that
the
three
coins
are
in
your
closed
right
hand.
You
announce
that
you
are
about
to
pass
them
invisibly
into
the
hand
of
B,
and
after
the
necessary
amount
of
magical
gesture,
you
open
your
hand,
and
show
that
they
have
vanished;
and
B,
on
examining
his
stock,
finds
that
the
supposed
nine
have
increased
to
twelve.
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