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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
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TO
TEACH
THE
COMPANY
A
TRICK
WHICH
THEY
LEARN
WITHOUT
DIFFICULTY;
THEN
TO
ALLOW
THEM
TO
SUCCEED
OR
TO
CAUSE
THEM
TO
FAIL
AT
YOUR
PLEASURE.--This
surprising
trick
is
performed
with
the
piquet
pack
of
thirty-two
cards,
from
which
you
must
beforehand
take
away,
and
secretly
pocket,
one
card
of
each
suit,
the
spectators,
however,
believing
that
you
use
the
whole
thirty-two
cards.
You
announce
to
the
company
that
you
will
teach
them
a
trick.
You
deal
the
cards
face
upwards
in
rows
of
four,
according
to
the
rules
set
forth
in
the
trick
already
described
under
the
title
of
“The
Congress
of
Court
Cards,”
i.e.,
you
place
a
card
of
each
suit
in
the
top
row;
you
commence
each
row
with
a
card
of
the
suit
with
which
the
row
above
ended;
you
make
the
second
of
each
row
the
same
suit
as
the
first
of
the
row
above,
and
the
third
the
same
suit
as
the
second
of
the
row
above,
and
so
on.
Thus,
if
your
top
row
be
club,
diamond,
heart,
spade,
your
second
will
be
spade,
club,
diamond,
heart;
your
third,
heart,
spade,
club,
diamond;
your
fourth,
diamond,
heart,
spade,
club;
your
fifth,
club,
diamond,
heart,
spade;
your
sixth,
spade,
club,
diamond,
heart;
and
your
seventh,
heart,
spade,
club,
diamond.
You
now
gather
up
the
cards
as
directed
in
the
trick
already
mentioned,
i.e.,
in
vertical
rows,
from
the
bottom
upwards,
commencing
at
the
right-hand
bottom
corner.
The
pack
thus
arranged
may
be
cut
any
number
of
times,
but,
if
dealt
in
four
heaps,
all
the
cards
of
each
suit
will
be
found
to
be
together.
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