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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
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CHAPTER
IX.
TRICKS
WITH
WATCHES.
TO
INDICATE
ON
THE
DIAL
OF
A
WATCH
THE
HOUR
SECRETLY
THOUGHT
OF
BY
ANY
OF
THE
COMPANY.--The
performer,
taking
a
watch
in
the
one
hand,
and
a
pencil
in
the
other,
proposes
to
give
a
specimen
of
his
powers
of
divination.
For
this
purpose
he
requests
any
one
present
to
write
down,
or,
if
preferred,
merely
to
think
of,
any
hour
he
pleases.
This
having
been
done,
the
performer,
without
asking
any
questions,
proceeds
to
tap
with
the
pencil
different
hours
on
the
dial
of
the
watch,
requesting
the
person
who
has
thought
of
the
hour
to
mentally
count
the
taps,
beginning
from
the
number
of
the
hour
he
thought
of.
(Thus,
if
the
hour
he
thought
of
were
“nine,”
he
must
count
the
first
tap
as
“ten,”
the
second
as
“eleven,”
and
so
on.)
When,
according
to
this
mode
of
counting,
he
reaches
the
number
“twenty,”
he
is
to
say
“Stop,”
when
the
pencil
of
the
performer
will
be
found
resting
precisely
upon
that
hour
of
the
dial
which
he
thought
of.
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