pages: latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf, 60
This data as json
path | page | folder | text |
---|---|---|---|
latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 60 | 44 LATEST MAGIC positions have been shown, the audience being allowed to say under which card the coin shall appear, and the last shift having been to one of the side positions, the performer says: "I should like you to be satisfied that it is really the marked coin and no other, that wanders about in this way. I will ask the gentleman who lent it to me to verify his mark." He picks up from one of the side positions the coin last uncovered and brings it forward, but in transit "switches" it for the borrowed coin, which he has a moment previously picked up from its resting place behind the pack. It is, of course, this last which he offers for identification, again exchanging it for The substitute before replacing this in its former position. The final reproduc- tion must be from under the centre card, the per- former again ringing the changes before returning the coin to the owner. At the close of the trick all three cards are placed on the pack, the centre over- lay going with them. The other two overlays are left on the mat, each still covering its own coin, and the whole being carried off together. If the mat is of the folding kind it can be closed before removal, effectually concealing the accessories used in the trick. Some amount of skill will be found necessary to pick up the card with or without the correspond- ing overlay, as may be desired. The difficulty however speedily disappears with practice.- On |