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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
258
THE
TRAVELLING
COUNTERS.--This
is
a
very
similar
trick
to
that
already
described
under
the
title
of
the
“Multiplication
of
Money.”
It
is
performed
with
twelve
metal
counters.
The
performer
begins
by
counting
the
twelve
counters
on
the
table;
then,
taking
up
four
of
them,
he
hands
them
to
a
spectator
to
hold,
and
taking
the
remainder
in
his
own
hand,
commands
them
to
change
places.
On
examination,
his
commands
are
found
to
be
obeyed.
The
spectator
has
eight,
while
the
performer
has
only
four.
The
spectator
is
now
requested
to
take
charge
of
the
eight,
when
the
operator
commands
the
four
which
he
himself
holds
to
rejoin
them.
This,
also,
is
found
to
be
accomplished.
The
operator
now
hands
the
twelve
to
a
second
spectator,
requesting
him
to
hold
them
tightly.
After
a
moment’s
interval,
he
is
requested
again
to
count
them,
but
finds
that
he
has
grasped
them
too
tightly,
for
they
are
now
welded
together
into
a
solid
mass.
The
performer
again
takes
them,
and
by
merely
breathing
on
them,
restores
them
to
their
original
state.
The
student,
with
the
experience
which
he
has
by
this
time
gained,
will
naturally
conjecture
that
the
trick
is
in
reality
performed
with
sixteen
loose
counters,
and
twelve
soldered
together;
that
the
performer
commenced
the
trick
with
four
counters
palmed
in
his
right
hand,
which
he
secretly
added
to
the
four
which
he
handed
to
the
spectator;
that,
taking
up
the
remaining
eight,
and
apparently
transferring
them
from
his
right
hand
to
his
left,
he
really
transferred
four
only,
leaving
the
remainder
in
the
right
hand;
and
that
when
he
again
handed
the
eight
counters
to
the
spectator,
he
added
these
last
to
them.
That
in
apparently
transferring
the
remaining
four
from
hand
to
hand
he
palmed
them,
forthwith
dropping
them
into
one
of
his
pochettes,
and
taking
from
the
same
place,
or
from
under
his
waistband,
the
solid
twelve,
which
he
finally
handed
to
the
second
spectator
in
place
of
the
twelve
loose
counters;
again
substituting
the
loose
ones,
as
before,
when
by
breathing
on
them
he
professed
to
restore
them
to
their
primitive
state.
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