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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
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You
may
also
reveal
a
chosen
card
with
very
good
effect
in
the
following
manner:
A
card
having
been
freely
drawn,
open
the
pack
in
such
manner
that
it
may
be
placed,
when
returned,
immediately
under
the
long
card,
which,
by
the
way,
should
in
this
instance
really
be
a
wide
card,
though
the
term
“long
card”
applies,
as
already
mentioned,
to
both
kinds
of
card.
The
pack
may
be
moderately
shuffled,
with
very
little
risk
of
the
two
cards
being
separated,
the
greater
width
of
the
long
card
tending
to
shelter
the
card
beneath
it,
and
making
it
very
unlikely
that
that
card
will
be
displaced.
If
after
the
shuffle
the
long
card
does
not
happen
to
be
tolerably
high
up
in
the
pack,
you
should
cut
the
cards
in
such
manner
as
to
make
it
so.
Holding
the
cards
in
a
horizontal
position,
face
downwards,
above
the
table,
the
thumb
being
on
one
side
and
the
fingers
on
the
other
side
of
the
pack,
you
say,
“Ladies
and
gentlemen,
I
am
now
about
to
drop
the
cards,
a
few
at
a
time,
in
a
number
of
little
heaps
upon
the
table,
stopping
when
you
tell
me
to
do
so.
It
will
be
equally
open
to
you
to
stop
me
when
I
have
made
one
or
two
heaps
only,
or
not
until
I
have
made
seven
or
eight,
but,
whenever
it
is,
the
card
at
the
top
of
the
heap
last
made
will
be
the
identical
card
which
was
just
now
drawn,
and
which
has
since,
as
you
have
seen,
been
thoroughly
shuffled
in
the
pack.”
You
now
drop
the
cards,
four
or
five
at
a
time,
on
various
parts
of
the
table.
When
the
word
“stop”
is
pronounced
you
let
go
all
the
remaining
cards
below
the
long
card,
which,
from
its
greater
width,
a
very
slight
pressure
suffices
to
retain.
The
card
chosen
having
been
next
below
the
long
card,
is
now
at
the
top
of
the
last
heap.
You
ask
the
person
who
drew
to
name
his
card,
and,
touching
the
back
of
the
top
card
with
your
wand,
turn
it
over
to
show
that
it
is
the
right
one.
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