Chapter V: Card Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus

The Magic Sword. A Card being drawn and replaced, and the Pack
flung in the Air, to catch the chosen Card on the point of
the Sword 121

The Rising Cards.--Several Cards having been drawn, returned,
and shuffled, to make them rise spontaneously from the Pack 125

The Jumping Cards.--Two or three Cards having been drawn,
returned, and shuffled, to make them jump out of the Pack 130

To make a Card stand upright by itself on the Table 132

“Changing” Card-boxes, and Tricks performed with them 134

The Mechanical Card-box 137

The “Card and Bird Box” 138

The Card Tripod 139

The “Torn Card” 139

Mechanical Changing Cards 142

CHAPTER VI.

PRINCIPLES OF SLEIGHT-OF-HAND MORE ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO
COIN TRICKS.

Palming 146

Passes 147

Changes 157