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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 39 | A MAGICAL TRANSPOSITION 23 tion it deserves, and have probably far from exhausted its possibilities, but I offer by way of illustration the trick next following, which it seems to me would be rather effective, particularly as an introduction to some other card trick. We will call it A MAGICAL TRANSPOSITION Prepare two cards, say an eight of hearts and a seven of spades, by blackening all their edges save one of the narrow ends,ยน and backing each with velvet matching the mat. Lay the two cards SO treated face down with the white edge towards yourself on the mat at some little distance apart, or preferably on separate mats. Force corre- sponding cards on two members of the company and deliver an oration to something like the fol- lowing effect: "We hear people talk sometimes about the quickness of the hand deceiving the eye. I sup- pose such a thing must be possible, or nobody would have thought of it, but it seems to me that if it did anything of the kind, either the hand must be extra quick, or the eye extra slow. I know I should be afraid to attempt anything of that sort myself, but if you are a magician of the right sort you have no need to do so, for you can deceive the eye with- 1 Better still, thicken the under edge by the interposition between card and velvet of a slip of white card, as described in The Detective Die, post. |