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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
399
PASS
VI.
TO
PLACE
THREE
BALLS
ONE
AFTER
THE
OTHER
UPON
THE
TOP
OF
ONE
OF
THE
CUPS,
AND
TO
MAKE
THEM
FALL
THROUGH
THE
CUP
ON
TO
THE
TABLE.--At
the
conclusion
of
the
last
Pass
the
performer
had
brought
three
balls
under
the
centre
cup
B,
a
fourth
remaining
concealed
in
his
hand.
In
lifting
B
to
exhibit
the
three
balls,
and
in
replacing
it
beside
them,
he
takes
the
opportunity
of
introducing
beneath
it
this
fourth
ball.
He
next
takes
one
of
the
three
balls
thus
exposed,
and
placing
it
on
the
top
of
this
same
goblet
(B),
covering
it
with
a
second
goblet
(A).
Making
any
appropriate
gesture
he
pleases,
he
commands
the
ball
to
fall
through
the
lower
goblet
on
to
the
table.
He
then
overturns
(without
separating)
the
two
goblets,
their
mouths
being
towards
the
spectators,
when
the
ball
which
he
had
secretly
introduced
will
be
discovered,
and
will
appear
to
be
that
which
the
spectators
have
just
seen
placed
on
the
top
of
the
goblet
(and
which
really
still
remains
between
the
two
goblets),
and
picks
up
the
two
goblets
together,
mouth
upwards,
with
the
left
hand,
and
with
the
right
hand
takes
out
that
which
is
now
uppermost
(B).
He
turns
both
the
goblets
down
upon
the
table,
placing
A
over
the
ball
which
he
has
just
shown.
If
this
is
neatly
done,
the
other
ball,
which
has
remained
in
A,
will
not
be
discovered,
but
will
as
it
falls
be
covered
by
A,
which
will
now
have
beneath
it
two
balls.
The
performer
now
places
one
of
the
remaining
balls
on
the
top
of
A,
covering
it
with
either
of
the
other
goblets,
and
again
goes
through
the
same
process
till
he
has
shown
first
two,
and
then
three
balls
under
the
cup,
the
fourth
remaining,
at
the
close
of
the
Pass,
between
the
two
cups
last
used.
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