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| latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 26 | 10 LATEST MAGIC here is another inside it.'' (Produce second pot.) "You wouldn't have thought it, would you ? In fact, you would never have known, if I hadn't told you. "Of course I could keep on doing this all the evening, but there wouldn't be much fun in it, and no time would be left for anything else, SO I will proceed at once to make use of the pots for a little experiment with cards." (Proceed with any trick for which the card mat may have been prepared.) N. B. It will be taken for granted, in the description of tricks dependent upon the use of the flower-pots, that these have been already intro- duced, after the above or some similar manner. ADHESIVE CARDS AND TRICKS THEREWITH I believe I may safely claim that the device I am about to describe was, until I disclosed it some months ago in the Magazine of Magic, an absolute novelty. It consists in the preparation of one card of a pack (or, better still, of a spare card, to be substituted at need for its double), by rubbing one or other of its surfaces, shortly before it is needed for use, with diachylon, in the solid form. We will suppose, in the first instance, that the back of the card is so dealt with. The rubbing does not alter its appearance, but gives it a thin coating of adhesive matter, and if another card is |