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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 40 | 24 LATEST MAGIC out any quickness at all. I will prove it to you by means of these two cards which have been chosen. Please give me one of them. I don't mind which." We will suppose that the card handed up is the eight of hearts. "Notice please what card this is; the eight of hearts. You can't possibly mistake it for any other card, can you? I will turn it down here on the table. And now for the other card." (It is held up that all may see it.) "This one, you see, is the seven of spades. No mistake about that, either! I will lay that one here." The card is in each case laid upon the velvet-covered card of the opposite kind. "Please don't forget which is which. There has been no quickness of the hand so far, has there ? Now I am going to make these two cards change places." (You touch each with the wand.) "Presto, change!" (Picking up the upper and lower cards exactly one upon the other you show what was a moment previously the eight of hearts, but which now appears to be the seven of spades.) "One card has changed, you see. And now for the other." (You show the other pair after the same fashion.) "And here we have the eight of hearts. I will now order them to change back again." You lay both pairs again face down. "Now I again give the cards a touch with my wand, and say 'Right about! Change!' and now, you see" (showing the faces of the original cards), |