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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 59 | WHERE IS IT? 43 "I do this," he explains, "in order to drive out all adverse magnetisms, and to substitute my own. I will now put the coin in full view on the table and cover it with a card. See that I do SO fairly." After laying down the coin he takes the top card of the pack, and with it, unknown to the specta- tors, the overlay beneath it, and lowers them on to the coin. "Notice particularly, please, where I have placed the coin, and notice too that I do not touch it again. I will now place two more cards, one on each side of the first one." He does so, letting the spectators see clearly that there is nothing in the hand save the card itself, and then slowly lowering it exactly on to one of the two overlays on the table. "Now I make a few magnetic passes over the cards, so." He waves his wand backwards and forwards above the cards, at a few inches' distance. "And now, where is the coin? Still under the middle card, you would say You are mistaken." He lifts that card lengthwise, leaving the overlay covering the coin; then replacing the card. "Itis no longer there, you see. In point of fact it has passed under this card." He lifts one of the side cards breadthwise, the overlay coming with it, and exposes the coin beneath it. "Here it is, you see. We will try once more." He replaces the card and then shows, in like manner, that the coin has passed to the card on the opposite side. After one or two trans- |