Sleights; being a number of incidental effects, tricks, sleights, moves and passes, for purposes ranging from impromptu to platform performances (1914)
his course and with his thumb pushes the selected card off the top of the low^er portion and into the center of the upper packet as shown in No. 34. Everything is apparently fair, especially if the performer gives the pack a dove-tail shuffle and even submits the packet to the audience for the same… … the right. This covers the slip, which in this trick must be executed far more noiselessly than usual, as the spectators' attention is cen- tered on the cards. Do not press too hard on the slipped card, which will cause it to snap down — but drawing it off lightly, let it come slowly against the…
Magic tricks
Internet Archive · University of California Libraries · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
