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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
79
TO
ALLOW
A
PERSON
TO
THINK
OF
A
CARD,
AND
TO
MAKE
THAT
CARD
APPEAR
AT
SUCH
NUMBER
IN
THE
PACK
AS
ANOTHER
PERSON
SHALL
NAME.--Allow
the
pack
to
be
shuffled
and
cut
as
freely
as
the
company
please.
When
they
are
fully
satisfied
that
the
cards
are
well
mixed,
offer
the
pack
to
any
of
the
spectators,
and
request
him
to
look
over
the
cards,
and
think
of
any
one,
and
to
remember
the
number
at
which
it
stands
in
the
pack,
reckoning
from
the
bottom
card
upwards.
You
then
remark,
“Ladies
and
gentlemen,
you
will
take
particular
notice
that
I
have
not
asked
a
single
question,
and
yet
I
already
know
the
card;
and
if
anyone
will
kindly
indicate
the
place
in
the
pack
at
which
you
desire
it
to
appear,
I
will
at
once
cause
it
to
take
that
position.
I
must
only
ask
that,
by
arrangement
between
yourselves,
you
will
make
the
number
at
which
the
card
is
to
appear
higher
than
that
which
it
originally
held.”
We
will
suppose
that
the
audience
decide
that
the
card
shall
appear
at
number
22.
Carelessly
remark,
“It
is
not
even
necessary
for
me
to
see
the
cards.”
So
saying,
hold
the
pack
under
the
table,
and
rapidly
count
off
twenty-two
cards
from
the
bottom
of
the
pack,
and
place
them
on
the
top.[C]
You
then
continue,
“Having
already
placed
the
card
thought
of
in
the
desired
position,
I
may
now,
without
suspicion,
ask
for
the
original
number
of
the
card,
as
I
shall
commence
my
counting
with
that
number.”
We
will
suppose
you
are
told
the
card
was
originally
number
10.
You
begin
to
count
from
the
top
of
the
pack,
calling
the
first
card
10,
the
next
11,
and
so
on.
When
you
come
to
22,
the
number
appointed,
you
say,
“If
I
have
kept
my
promise,
this
should
be
the
card
you
thought
of.
To
avoid
the
suspicion
of
confederacy,
will
you
please
say,
before
I
turn
it
over,
what
your
card
was.”
The
card
being
named,
you
turn
it
up,
and
show
that
it
is
the
right
one.
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