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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
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It
is
a
good
plan
to
perform
the
trick
first
without,
and
then
to
repeat
it
with,
the
aid
of
the
money
plate,
making
a
great
point
in
the
second
instance
of
the
fact
that
you
do
not
even
touch
the
money,
and
accounting
for
the
use
of
the
plate
as
designed
to
preclude
all
possibility
of
the
use
of
sleight-of-hand,
or
any
other
mechanical
mode
of
deception.
The
spectators,
having
already
seen
you
perform
the
trick
without
the
aid
of
the
plate,
are
precluded
from
supposing
that
this
latter
has
any
special
connection
with
the
secret;
and
seeing
clearly
that
you
have
in
this
instance
no
coins
concealed
in
your
hands,
naturally
conclude
that
the
same
was
the
case
on
the
former
occasion.
Thus
the
repetition
of
the
trick,
instead
of
assisting
them
to
a
solution,
rather
increases
the
mystery.
The
trick
may
be
varied
at
pleasure
so
far
as
regards
the
manner
of
the
disappearance
of
the
coins
which
are
supposed
to
be
passed
invisibly
into
the
hands
of
the
person
holding
the
larger
number.
One
mode
is
to
ask
one
of
the
company
to
wrap
them
up
in
a
piece
of
stiff
paper,
for
which
you
forthwith
secretly
substitute
a
piece
of
similar
paper,
in
which
a
like
number
of
coins
have
been
wrapped,
but
have
been
removed,
the
paper,
however,
retaining
the
form
of
the
coins.
Taking
this
in
the
left
hand,
you
pretend
to
take
from
it,
invisibly,
with
the
finger
and
thumb
of
the
right
hand,
each
coin
in
succession,
and
to
pass
it
in
the
same
manner
into
the
hand
of
the
person
holding
the
remaining
coins,
finally
tearing
the
paper
in
half
to
show
that
they
have
really
passed
away
from
it.
Or
you
may,
if
you
prefer
it,
place
the
coins
in
question
on
the
“vanishing
plate,”
to
be
hereafter
described,
whence
they
mysteriously
disappear
as
you
take
them
off
one
by
one.
This
is
a
very
effective
mode.
Or
you
may
place
them
in
the
“plug-box,”
the
“Davenport
cabinet,”
or
any
other
of
the
various
appliances
after-mentioned
for
vanishing
money.
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