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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
90
CHAPTER
IV.
TRICKS
INVOLVING
SLEIGHT-OF-HAND
OR
THE
USE
OF
SPECIALLY
PREPARED
CARDS.
We
have
already
explained
the
nature
and
use
of
the
“forcing”
pack
of
cards.
It
may
be
well,
before
we
go
further,
to
give
a
short
account
of
one
or
two
other
species
of
prepared
cards.
THE
LONG
CARD.--This
is
the
technical
name
for
a
card
longer
or
wider,
by
about
the
thickness
of
a
sixpence,
than
the
rest
of
the
pack.
This
card
will
naturally
project
to
that
extent
beyond
the
general
length
or
width
of
the
other
cards,
and
the
performer
is
thereby
enabled
to
cut
the
pack
at
that
particular
card
whenever
he
chooses
to
do
so.
With
the
aid
of
such
a
card,
and
a
tolerable
proficiency
in
“forcing”
and
“making
the
pass,”
many
excellent
tricks
can
be
performed.
Packs
with
a
long
card
can
be
obtained
at
any
of
the
conjuring
depôts.
The
best
plan,
however,
is
to
purchase
two
ordinary
packs,
precisely
alike,
and
to
have
the
edges
of
one
of
them
shaved
down
by
a
bookbinder
to
the
requisite
extent,
when
you
can
insert
any
card
of
the
other
pack
at
pleasure
to
form
your
long
card,
and
thus
avoid
the
suspicion
which
would
naturally
arise
from
the
performance
of
several
tricks
with
the
same
card.
A
still
greater
improvement
upon
the
ordinary
long-card
pack
is
the
biseauté
or
tapering
pack,
in
which,
though
only
one
pack
is
used,
any
card
may
in
turn
become
the
long
card.
A
biseauté
pack
consists
of
cards
all
of
which
are
a
shade
wider
(say
the
thickness
of
a
shilling)
at
one
end
than
the
other.
(See
Fig.
33,
in
which,
however,
the
actual
difference
of
width
is
exaggerated,
in
order
to
make
the
shape
of
the
card
clear
to
the
eye.)
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