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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 54 | 38 LATEST MAGIC If the reader (being an expert) is provided with a spare red ball and red shell, he may offer the choice as to which shall be the colour of all three, finally causing their disappearance after the man- ner above described, or his own version thereof. WHERE IS IT? This is another of the tricks dependent on the novel application of the black art principle. For programme purposes the trick may, if pre- ferred, be entitled "The Erratic Shilling." Its effect may be broadly described as follows: A marked shilling, lent by some member of the company, after being professedly magnetised or mesmerised by rubbing, is laid upon a black velvet mat and covered with a playing card, face down. Two other cards are laid (also faces down), one on each side of the first, at a few inches distance from it, and the audience are given to understand that the rubbing has imparted to the coin the power to travel from card to card at command, and indeed sometimes of its own accord. When the card which covered the coin is lifted, this is found to be the case. The shilling is no longer where first seen, but is found to have placed itself under one of the other two cards. The spectators may be invited to say under which of the cards they would like the coin to pass, when it will place itself accordingly. |