Chapter IV

TRICKS INVOLVING SLEIGHT-OF-HAND, OR THE USE OF SPECIALLY
PREPARED CARDS.

The “Long Card” 60

_Biseauté_ or Tapering Cards 60

Tricks Performed by the Aid of a Long Card, or _biseauté_ Pack--

A Card having been Chosen and Returned, and the Pack
Shuffled, to produce the Chosen Card instantly in various
ways 62

To Cut at the Chosen Card 62

To Let all the Cards fall, save the One Chosen 62

To Pick out the Card, the Pack being placed in a Person’s
Pocket 62

To Fling the Pack in the Air, and Catch the Chosen Card 63

To Change a Card drawn hap-hazard to the Chosen Card 63

To Divide the Pack into several Packets on the Table, allowing
the Company to stop you at any Moment, and to cause the Top
Card of the Heap last made to Change into the Chosen Card 65

To Teach the Company a Trick which they Learn without
Difficulty; then to allow them to Succeed or cause them to
Fail at your Pleasure 65

To Distinguish the Court Cards by Touch 69

To Name any Number of Cards in Succession without Seeing Them 70

To Make Four Cards change from Eights to Twos, from Black to
Red, etc. 71

A Card having been Drawn and Returned, and the Pack Shuffled,
to make it Appear at such Number as the Company choose 73

The same Trick with several Cards, and by a Different Method 75

The “Three Card” Trick 76

To Nail a Chosen Card to the Wall 77

The Inseparable Sevens 77

The Inseparable Aces 79

Having placed the Four Aces in different positions in the Pack,
to make the two Black change places with the two Red ones,
and finally to bring all Four together in the Middle of the
Pack 80

A Card having been thought of, to make such Card Vanish from
the Pack, and be Discovered wherever the Performer pleases 83

To cause a Number of Cards to Multiply invisibly in a Person’s
keeping 84

The Pack being divided into two Portions, placed in the
keeping of two different Persons, to make Three Cards pass
invisibly from the One to the Other 86

To allow several Persons each to draw a Card, and the Pack
having been Shuffled, to make another Card drawn haphazard
change successively into each of those first chosen 87

To make Four Aces change to Four Kings, and Four Kings to Four
Aces 90

Having made Four Packets of Cards with an Ace at the bottom
of each, to bring all Four Aces into whichever Packet the
Company may choose 91

To Change the Four Aces, held tightly by a Person, into Four
Indifferent Cards 93

The Shower of Aces 97

Several Persons having each drawn Two Cards, which have been
Returned and Shuffled, to make each Couple appear in
Succession, one at the top and the other at the bottom of
the Pack 99

To make Two Cards, each firmly held by a different Person,
change places 101

To change Four Cards, drawn haphazard, and placed on the
Table, into Cards of the same Value as a Single Card
subsequently chosen by one of the Spectators 102

Two Heaps of Cards, unequal in Number, being placed upon the
Table, to predict beforehand which of the two the Company
will choose 103

A Row of Cards being placed Face Downwards on the Table, to
indicate, by turning up one of them, how many of such Cards
have during your absence been transferred from one end of
the Row to the other 104

Several Cards having been freely chosen by the Company,
Returned and Shuffled, and the Pack placed in a Person’s
Pocket, to make such Person draw out one by one the chosen
Cards 106

The Cards having been freely Shuffled, and cut into three or
four Heaps, to name the top Card of each Heap 108

To allow a Person secretly to think of a Card, and, dividing
the Pack into three Heaps, to cause the Card thought of to
appear in whichever Heap the Company may choose 108

To allow a Person secretly to think of a Card, and, even
before such Card is named, to select it from the Pack, and
place it singly upon the Table 110

A Card having been secretly thought of by one of the
Audience, to place two Indifferent Cards upon the Table,
and to change such one of them as the Audience may select
into the Card thought of 111

A Card having been Drawn and Returned, and the Pack shuffled,
to divide the Pack into several Heaps on the Table, and to
cause the Drawn Card to appear in such Heap as the Company
may choose 114

To change a Drawn Card into the Portraits of several of the
Company in succession 115

A Card having been Drawn and Returned, and the Pack shuffled,
to place on the Table six Rows of six Cards each, and to
discover the chosen Card by a throw of the Dice 116

A Card having been withdrawn and replaced, to call it from
the Pack, and to make it come to you of its own accord 117

Mode of Preparing specially adhesive Wax for Conjuring Purposes 118

The Whist Trick. (Improved Method.) To deal yourself all the
Trumps, the three other Players holding the usual mixed
Hands 119