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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 190 | 174 LATEST MAGIC out how it was done, or die. They haven't come again: SO I suppose they died.ยน "As you are prepared to run the risk I will ask some gentleman to oblige me with the loan of a shilling, marked in some unmistakable way. Thank you, Sir. You have marked the coin? Then please place it here, on this little tray. I won't touch it myself at present. All please keep one eye upon it, the other eye you had better keep on me." Receive the coin on the mat, held in right hand. After showing the left hand empty, transfer the mat to that hand and show the right empty. Return the mat to right hand, but before doing SO turn that hand over SO as to receive the mat with thumb undermost. Just as you reach the table to place the mat upon it bring the second and third fingers over the borrowed coin, and under cover of your own body turn the mat over. In putting it down on the table draw away the borrowed coin into the hand and palm it. To the eye of the spec- tator the state of things will be unaltered, your own coin, now uppermost on the mat, being taken for the borrowed one. You continue, standing behind your table, and resting the right hand, with the palmed coin, close to the trick envelope, and holding up the two nests 1 This rigmarole may equally well be used by way of introduction to any other trick of sufficient importance. King George's puzzlement about the dumplings is said to be a matter of history, but, I do not guarantee it as a fact. |