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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
403
PASS
X.
THE
“MULTIPLICATION”
PASS.--For
the
purpose
of
this
Pass
it
is
necessary
to
borrow
a
hat,
which
you
hold
in
the
left
hand.
You
then
place
the
three
balls
in
a
row
upon
the
table,
and
cover
each
with
one
of
the
cups.
It
will
be
remembered
that
a
fourth
ball
remains
palmed
in
your
right
hand.
You
now
lift
up
the
right
hand
goblet
(C),
and
place
it
on
the
table
close
beside
the
ball
which
it
lately
covered,
and
as
you
do
so,
secretly
introduce
beneath
it
the
palmed
ball.
You
pick
up
with
the
right
hand
the
ball
which
you
have
thus
uncovered,
and
go
through
the
motion
of
dropping
it
into
the
hat,
really
palming
it
in
the
moment
during
which
the
hand
is
concealed
inside
the
hat,
and
at
the
same
moment
simulating,
by
gentle
tap
against
the
inside,
the
sound
which
the
ball
would
make
if
actually
dropped
into
the
hat.
You
next
lift
B
in
like
manner,
introducing
the
ball
just
palmed
beneath
it,
and
go
through
the
motion
of
placing
the
second
ball,
which
is
thereby
left
exposed,
in
the
hat.
You
do
the
same
with
the
third
cup,
then
return
to
the
first
(which
the
spectators
believe
to
be
now
empty,
and
from
which
they
are
astonished
to
see
you
produce
another
ball),
continuing
till
you
have
raised
each
cup
in
succession
eight
or
ten
times,
and,
on
each
occasion
of
lifting
a
cup
to
uncover
a
ball,
introducing
beneath
it
the
ball
which
you
had
just
previously
palmed.
To
the
eyes
of
the
spectators,
who
believe
that
the
balls
are
really
dropped
into
the
hat,
the
effect
will
be
exactly
as
if
new
balls,
by
some
mysterious
process
of
reproduction,
came
under
the
cups
at
each
time
of
raising
them.
When
you
think
your
audience
are
sufficiently
astonished,
you
remark,
“I
think
we
have
about
enough
now;
the
hat
is
getting
rather
heavy.
Will
some
one
hold
a
handkerchief
to
receive
the
balls?”
When
the
handkerchief
is
spread
out,
you
carefully
turn
over
the
hat,
and
the
general
astonishment
will
be
intensified
at
discovering
that
it
contains
nothing.
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