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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 88 | 72 LATEST MAGIC ror before each new attempt, so as to get a clear impression. The trick as above described can be worked with any pack of cards, but where those used are the performer's own property, he can make it even more effective by marking the three cards to be freed in such a way as to be distinguishable (by himself only) by their backs. The drawers in this case are requested to press their hand against the back of the card, and the cards are spread face down upon the table, the performer apparently not knowing the nature of the card indicated to him until he has turned it up. DIVINATION DOUBLY DIFFICULT This trick, though it merely rests upon a com- bination of methods already familiar to the expert, may as a whole fairly claim to be a complete nov- elty. The mise en scène is SO simple, and the room for deception apparently SO small, that to the uninitiated it seems like a genuine miracle. Unlike most card tricks, it is even better adapted to the stage than to the drawing-room. The effect of the trick, baldly stated, is that the performer divines the nature of nine cards, selected apparently quite haphazard, and then picks out the corresponding cards from another pack, freely shuffled and covered by a handker- chief. |