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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 206 | 190 LATEST MAGIC please remember I have not touched since you shuffled it yourself, into six portions, one for each page of the book." This is done, the six packets being turned face down on the table. We will suppose that the chosen card is not found on the first page. "Then," says the performer, "this first packet will tell me nothing, and may be disregarded. Now, for the second page, is your card upon that ? It is ? Then I draw two cards from the second heap, and turn up one of them. And now for the third page. Do you find your card there? You do ? Then I take up three cards from the third packet, and again turn up the last one." We will suppose that the chosen card is not found in either the fourth or the fifth page, but re-appears on the sixth, whereupon six cards are counted off from the corresponding packet, and the last of them turned up. The performer has by this time mentally added up the key numbers of the second, third and sixth pages: viz., 2, 4 and 32, together making 38, and knows therefrom that the card is the thirty-eighth in the list, viz., the queen of spades. He does not however at once display his knowledge, but pretends to make a mental calcula- tion from the cards exposed upon the table, giving, if he so pleases, and the cards lend themselves to it, some fanciful explanation of his method. It seems to me, however, that this last is a needless elaboration. Personally, I should prefer merely |