pages: latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf, 62
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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 62 | CARD TRICKS ARITHMETIC BY MAGIC Preparation. The two "flower-pots" (see page 5), separated, are placed upon the table. Also the card mat (see page 1), loaded with the ten of any given suit, say diamonds, taken from the pack per- former is about to use, and a double-faced card, representing on the one side the seven, and on the other the three of the same suit. The deuce and five of same suit to be laid on the top of the pack. Performer, advancing pack in hand, palms off the two top cards, and offers the rest to be shuffled. This done, he forces these two cards on different persons. On receiving back one of them, he brings it to the top; executes a false shuffle leaving it in the same position ; brings it again to the middle by the pass, and has the second card replaced upon it; then, once again making the pass, brings both together to the top. (The use of the Charlier pass is here recom- mended.) The patter may be to something like the follow- ing effect: "Two cards have been chosen, ladies and gentlemen. I can't say what they are, but I can very easily find out. I shall simply order 46 |