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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 70 | 54 LATEST MAGIC with the left hand. When the knaves have been laid upon it, you transfer it to the opposite hand, and palm on to them the three concealed cards, but immediately slide them off again, with the uppermost of the four knaves beneath them. You hold them up in a careless way, so that the audience, catching sight of this card, may be con- firmed in the belief that the cards exhibited in the right hand are really the four knaves. "Here we have the four knaves, at present all together. I will now distribute them in different parts of the pack, as far apart as possible. One here, nearly at the bottom, one a little higher up, another about the middle, and this last" (you show it carelessly), "close to the top." (This, being a genuine knave, must be placed among the other knaves.) "They could hardly be placed farther apart than that: but to make things a little more difficult for them, I will ask some lady to cut the cards." This done, and the cards handed back to you, you repeat the click. "There it is again: the wire- less signal. You can all bear witness that I have nothing to do with the matter. Now, Sir, will you kindly examine the pack, and unless I am much mistaken, you will find that the other three knaves have answered Black Jack's call, and that the four cheerful blackguards have got together again, in which case, with your permission, I will leave them severely alone, and try some other experiment." |