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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
93
You
may
vary
the
trick
by
taking
the
cards
upright
between
the
second
finger
and
thumb
of
the
right
hand,
and
requesting
some
one
to
say,
“One,
two,
three!”
at
the
word
“three”
drop
all
the
cards
save
the
card
chosen,
which
its
projecting
edge
will
enable
you
to
retain
when
you
relax
the
pressure
upon
the
other
cards.
Another
mode
of
finishing
the
trick
is
to
request
any
one
present
to
put
the
pack
(previously
well
shuffled)
in
his
pocket,
when
you
proceed,
with
his
permission,
to
pick
his
pocket
of
the
chosen
card.
This
is
an
effective
trick,
and,
if
you
are
proficient
in
sleight-of-hand,
may
be
also
performed
with
an
unprepared
pack
of
cards.
In
the
latter
case,
when
the
chosen
card
is
returned
to
the
pack,
you
make
the
pass
to
bring
it
to
the
top,
palm
it,
and
immediately
offer
the
cards
to
be
shuffled.
(See
Fig.
15.)
The
pack
being
returned,
you
replace
the
chosen
card
on
the
top,
and
when
the
pack
is
placed
in
the
pocket
you
have
only
to
draw
out
the
top
card.
The
feat
of
cutting
at
the
chosen
card
may
also
by
similar
means
be
performed
with
an
ordinary
pack.
For
this
purpose
you
must
follow
the
directions
last
above
given
up
to
the
time
when,
the
pack
having
been
shuffled,
you
replace
the
palmed
card
on
the
top.
Then
transfer
the
pack
to
the
left
hand,
and
apparently
cut
with
the
right.
We
say
apparently,
for
though
to
the
eye
of
the
spectator
you
merely
cut
the
cards,
you
really
make
the
pass
by
sliding
the
lower
half
of
the
pack
to
the
left,
the
fingers
of
the
left
hand
at
the
same
moment
opening
a
little
to
lift
the
upper
packet,
and
so
give
room
for
the
upward
passage
of
the
lower
packet.
The
cards
remaining
after
the
pass
in
the
left
hand,
which
the
spectators
take
to
be
the
bottom
half
of
the
pack,
are
in
reality
the
original
upper
half;
and
on
the
uppermost
of
such
cards
being
turned
up,
it
is
found
to
be
the
one
which
was
chosen.
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