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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 78 | 62 LATEST MAGIC confinement. We will drop him into the other flower-pot, which, as you see, is also empty." (The card is in this case not dropped through the pot, but into the pocket.) "Now we shall be able to get on. No ! my left thumb tells me that there is still something not quite right..' (Glance into second flower-pot.) "Upon my word, this is too bad. The king of hearts has already. got away and followed the queen again." (Lift flower-pot, and show that the king has disappeared.) "I thought I had him safe, but his prison, as you see, is empty, and here he is again in the first flower-pot." (Show the three cards accordingly.) "He is too many for me; I can't show you what I had intended. I must give it up and try something else." Variation. Load mat with a single king of hearts and the queen of clubs, the latter taken from the pack. Proceed as before up to the putting of the king in prison, and then exhibit the queen of clubs, as having come in pursuit of her spouse, the patter being modified accordingly. The impris- oned king of hearts will still be found to have escaped, but in this case to have returned to the pack. For lack of the two flower-pots, the drawn cards may be dropped with the concealed pair into a bor- rowed hat, and the jealous king made to escape from a card-box, or some similar appliance. Apropos of the card-box, by the way, I have |