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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 27 | ADHESIVE CARDS 11 pressed against the surface SO treated, the two adhere, and for the time become, in effect, one card only, viz., the one whose face is exposed, the other having temporarily disappeared from the pack. This renders possible many striking effects. To take an elementary example, let us suppose that the old-fashioned flat card-box, or some other appliance for magically producing a card, is loaded with, say, a seven of diamonds. The cor- responding card is forced on one of the company, and taken back into the middle of the pack, on the top of the prepared card. The performer does not disturb or tamper with the pack in the smallest degree. He merely squares up the cards, and, pressing them well together, hands them to be shuffled, meanwhile calling attention to the card- box, which is shown apparently empty. He then asks the name of the drawn card, announcing that it will at his command leave the pack and find its way into the box. He now counts off the cards, showing the face of each as he does so, and leaving it exposed upon the table. The seven of diamonds has disap- peared, being in fact hidden behind the prepared card, which we will suppose to be in this instance the queen of clubs. Leaving the cards outspread upon the table, the performer opens the card-box, and shows that the missing card has somehow found its way into it. In the hands of a novice, the trick might end at |