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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 82 | 66 LATEST MAGIC much chance now for the poor king of hearts, left single-handed. He won't hold out long. Yes! Now he is gone too." Performer lifts flower-pot, with fingers inside pressing against pocket, and shows it apparently empty. "And here, in the other flower-pot" (lifts it and shows the four cards lying together on table) "are all four Kings. One more score to black. You didn't see the cards go ? Of course you didn't; because they fly horizontally, like the aeroplanes, and they go SO fast that they get there almost before they have started." SYMPATHETIC CARDS Preparation. Card mat loaded with two cards of different denomination, say the queen of clubs and the knave of diamonds, taken from the pack. Flower-pots on table. Presentation. Force the corresponding cards of same colour (in this case the queen of spades and the knave of hearts), lay the pack aside, and take the drawn cards back face down on the mat, leaving them thus on table till needed. The patter may run as follows: "As I think I have mentioned before, the cards of a pack, from long association, become a sort of family. They have their likes and dislikes, just as human beings have. In particular, there is a curious bond of sympathy between each pair of |