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thumb. Fig. 24.
Remarking that you will put the card, the Jack of Diamonds,
in the middle of the pack, place it on top of the now lower
packet, that is, on top of the original top card, the Five of
Spades, allowing it to protrude a little at the outer end and
square the two packets.
Take up the top card, now
an indifferent card, calling
it the Five of Spades, but
not showing its face, and
insert it in the pack
somewhere near the
bottom. Let this card also
protrude slightly from the
end of the deck. Call
attention to the fact that
the two cards are well
separated, push them flush with the other cards, and square
the deck very openly. The pack if looked at sideways will
look like this: Fig. 25.
The Five of Spades will be the top card of the lower packet
and the Jack of Diamonds the lowest card of the upper. By
simply finding the opening of the bridge, a process that
becomes practically automatic, dividing the pack at that
point with the tip of the left thumb and making the Charlier
Pass, the two cards return to their original positions at the
top and bottom. Destroy the bridge with a riffle and there is
no clue left to disclose the secret of the manipulation.
Or, you may finish by taking any card as a locator and,
dividing the pack at the bridge with the left thumb, thrust
the locator into the deck at that point. Square up openly and
hand the deck to a spectator. He finds the locator card
between the two cards that had, apparently been so fairly
and widely separated. The trick must be worked smartly, the
victim being given no time to notice that the face of the top
card is not shown when it is thrust into the deck. In Mr.
Walsh's skillful hands the feat is invariably successful.
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Card Manipulations No. 4
Jean Hugard
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Card in Pocket
Dr. Jack Daley's Version
There have been many variations of C. O. Williams' subtle
trick--"The Card in the Pocket". Dr. Jack Daley, of New
York City, who has many ingenious tricks to his credit, has
arranged a very clever application of the principle. As in the
original trick, a spectator is invited to think of a number and
then note the card that lies at that number from the top of a
well shuffled pack. The usual suggestion of the choice of a
number between one and ten has become somewhat
shopworn, a better plan is to ask the spectator to think of his
favorite hour. This restricts the range of the choice, avoids
loss of time in counting and dealing the cards and gives an
opportunity for some amusing patter. You may say that if he
is addicted to early rising, six o'clock may be his choice, or
the breakfast hour, eight, may appeal to him more. An
Amos and Andy fan would choose seven o'clock, while an
Englishman would plump for his inevitable afternoon tea
hour, four o'clock, and so on.
Hand the deck to the spectator to shuffle and when he has
fixed on his favorite hour, take the pack and holding it
upright, faces of the cards towards him, count off the cards
one by one, beginning with the top card, and saying, "One
o'clock, two o'clock, etc.," asking him to note and memorize
the card that appears at the hour he has mentally selected.
Turn your head away as this is being done to avoid any
suspicion of your getting any clue from the person's
expression.
Replace the twelve cards on the top of the pack and shuffle
overhand thus: undercut about two-thirds of the deck, run
one card, injog the next and shuffle off. Repeat by making a
break at the job, shuffle off the cards above and throw the
cards below the break on the top intact. The chosen card
will now he placed one card lower than its original position.
Execute as thorough a series of false shuffles and cuts as
you have at your command, finally leaving the thirteen
cards on top intact.
Remarking that it would be a very wonderful thing if the
spectator's card had been shuffled back to the same position
it first held, you ask what hour was thought of. Suppose it
was six, deal off five cards face down and the sixth face up
to one side. It is, of course an indifferent card, the chosen
card now being on top of the cards in your left hand. Take
these cards with the right hand, fingers at the outer end,
thumb at the inner end and drop them on the cards just dealt
face down, at the same moment palm the top card by the
One Hand Top Palm, (Card Manipulations No. 1).
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