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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
393
The
problem
is
to
draw
out
the
balls
without
lifting
the
cups.”
Here
he
replaces
the
cup,
apparently
placing
the
ball
beneath
it,
but
really
palming
it,
as
already
described
in
the
case
of
the
middle
cup,
and
then
returns
to
the
first
or
furthest
cup;
touching
the
top
of
the
goblet,
he
lets
the
palmed
ball
drop
to
his
finger-tips,
and
immediately
exhibits
it,
saying--“This
is
the
way
I
take
the
balls
out
of
the
cups.
The
ball
being
no
longer
needed,
I
return
it
into
the
wand.”
This
he
does
as
described
at
page
277,
immediately
afterwards,
if
desired,
handing
the
wand
for
examination.
“In
like
manner
I
draw
out
the
second
ball”
(he
repeats
the
same
process
with
the
middle
goblet),
“and
pass
that
also
into
my
wand.
I
need
not
even
handle
the
goblets.
See,
I
merely
touch
this
third
goblet
with
my
wand,
and
the
ball
instantly
appears
on
the
top.”
The
company,
of
course,
cannot
see
any
ball
on
the
end
of
the
wand,
but
a
ball
is
nevertheless
taken
thence
by
the
process
already
described,
of
letting
the
palmed
ball
drop
to
the
tips
of
the
fingers,
as
they
come
in
contact
with
the
wand.
“I
pass
this
also
into
my
wand.
Stay,
though,
on
second
thoughts,
I
shall
want
a
ball
for
my
next
experiment,
so
I
will
leave
it
here
on
the
table.”
[K]
The
reader
will
understand
that
nobody
has
in
fact
made
any
such
observation,
but
the
overhearing
of
an
imaginary
objection
is
often
of
great
use,
as
enabling
the
performer
to
do
some
necessary
act,
which
he
could
not
well
have
done
without
such
pretext.
Thus
in
this
instance,
the
performer
wants
a
plausible
excuse--first,
for
altering
his
apparent
intention
of
immediately
producing
a
second
ball
from
the
wand;
and,
secondly,
for
lifting
the
middle
cup,
and
so
regaining
possession
of
the
ball.
A
conjuror
thus
addressing
an
imaginary
objector
is
said
in
French
“parler
à
la
cantonade,”
but
the
phrase
has
no
precise
equivalent
among
English
performers.
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