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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
395
PASS
III.
HAVING
PLACED
A
BALL
UNDER
EACH
OF
THE
END
CUPS,
TO
MAKE
THEM
PASS
SUCCESSIVELY
UNDER
THE
MIDDLE
CUP.--Before
commencing
this
Pass,
the
performer,
while
placing
the
goblets
in
line,
or
otherwise
engaging
the
attention
of
the
audience
with
his
left
hand,
takes
from
the
servante
with
his
right,
and
palms,
a
second
ball.
He
continues,
“For
my
next
experiment,
ladies
and
gentlemen,
I
shall
require
two
balls.
I
need
hardly
remark
that
I
could
instantly
supply
myself
from
the
wand;
but
there
is
a
curious
faculty
about
the
balls
themselves;
they
have
a
constant
tendency
to
increase
and
multiply.
For
instance,
without
having
recourse
to
the
wand,
I
can
instantly
make
this
one
ball
into
two”
(he
takes
up
the
ball
on
the
table
in
his
left
hand,
taking
care
so
to
hold
it
that
all
may
see
that
there
is
nothing
else
in
his
hand),
“and
the
most
curious
part
of
the
matter
is,
that
though
mathematicians
insist
that
the
whole
is
always
greater
than
its
part,
in
this
case
each
of
the
parts
will
be
found
precisely
equal
to
the
whole.”
As
he
speaks,
he
takes
the
ball
from
the
left
hand
with
the
fingers
of
the
right,
at
the
same
time
dropping
the
palmed
ball
into
the
left
hand,
and
now
taking
care
to
so
hold
his
right
hand
as
to
show
that
it
contains
the
one
ball
only.
He
then
again
replaces
this
ball
in
the
palm
of
the
left
hand,
where
it
lies
side
by
side
with
the
second
ball.
Rubbing
the
left
palm
with
the
second
and
third
fingers
of
the
right,
with
a
circular
motion,
he
gradually
lifts
the
fingers,
and
shows
the
single
ball
apparently
transformed
into
two,
both
of
which
he
places
on
the
table.
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