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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
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You
take
care
not
to
bring
on
the
goblet
and
cover
until
you
have,
by
substitution,
gained
possession
of
the
two
marked
coins
which
you
have
borrowed
for
the
purpose
of
the
trick.
Retiring
to
fetch
the
glass
and
cover,
you
prepare
the
latter
by
inserting
the
marked
coins.
This
you
do
by
holding
the
cover
upside
down,
pressing
the
knob
(thus
drawing
back
the
spring
slide),
and
dropping
the
coins
into
their
receptacle.
On
removing
the
pressure
on
the
knob,
the
slide
returns
to
its
normal
position.
You
then
bring
forward
the
goblet
and
cover,
and
place
them
on
the
table.
Holding
the
goblet
upside
down,
to
show
that
it
is
empty,
you
place
the
cover
over
it,
ostensibly
to
prevent
anything
being
secretly
passed
into
it,
and,
for
still
greater
security,
throw
a
handkerchief,
borrowed
for
that
purpose,
over
the
whole.
You
now
announce
that,
notwithstanding
the
difficulties
which
you
have
voluntarily
placed
in
the
way,
you
will
pass
the
two
marked
coins
through
the
handkerchief,
and
through
the
metal
cover
into
the
glass.
Taking
in
your
right
hand
one
of
the
substitutes,
which
have
all
along
remained
in
sight,
and
which
the
audience
take
to
be
the
genuine
coins,
you
pretend
by
Pass
1
to
transfer
it
to
your
left,
and
pressing
gently
on
the
knob
with
the
last-mentioned
hand,
cause
one
of
the
marked
coins
to
drop
from
the
cover,
at
the
same
moment
opening
the
hand
to
show
that
the
coin
has
left
it.
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