Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

CHAPTER XIII. THE CUPS AND BALLS. Introductory Remarks 271 Principles of Sleight-of-hand applicable to Ball Tricks-- To Palm the Ball 273 To Reproduce the Palmed Ball at the End of the Fingers 274 To Secretly Introduce the Palmed Ball under the Cup 275 To Simulate the Action of Placing a Ball under a Cup 276 To Produce a Ball from the Wand 276 To Return a Ball into the Wand 277 To Pass one Cup through Another 277 Burlesque Address to the Spectators 278 Pass I. Having Placed a Ball under each Cup, to draw it out again without Lifting the Cup 279 Pass II. To make a Ball Travel invisibly from Cup to Cup 281 Pass III. Having placed a Ball under each of the end Cups, to make them pass successively under the Middle Cup 282 Pass IV. Having placed two Balls under the Middle Cup, to make them pass under the two Outer Ones 283 Pass V. To pass three Balls in succession under One Cup 283 Pass VI. To place three Balls one after the other upon the top of one of the Cups, and to make them fall through the Cup on to the Table 284 Pass VII. To pass three Balls in succession upwards through the Table into one of the Cups 285 Pass VIII. To pass two Balls in succession from one Cup to another without touching them 286 Pass IX. To make three Balls in succession pass under the Middle Cup 286