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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 68 | 52 LATEST MAGIC municates with them by means of a sort of wire- less telegraphy, and when he calls they go to him at once." (You here make the "click."7 "Did you hear that sound? That's his call now, despatched by wireless from the hat to the very middle of the pack. I have no doubt that we shall find that the other three knaves have already left it, and joined him in the hat." (Make believe to look over the pack, and hand it to a spectator.) "Yes! just as I thought: they are all gone." (To a spec- tator.) "See for yourself, sir. Not a single knave left. And here they all are, in the hat." (Whence they are produced accordingly.) As the "click" in some cases adds much to the effect of a trick, and as it may to some readers be an unfamiliar sleight, I may pause to explain that it is executed as follows: Take the pack in either hand, held upright between forefinger and thumb, a little more than half-way down, with the middle finger curled up behind it as in Fig. 13. With the tip of the third finger bend back the extreme bot- tom corners of the last half dozen or SO of the cards, allowing them to escape again smartly. The sound made by the corners in springing back again constitutes the "click." It needs a little practice, but if the cards are held properly, and the sleight worked smartly, the sound will be audible at a considerable distance, whilst the move- ment of the finger producing it is quite invisible to the spectators. |