How to Hold Pour Kings in your Hand, and by Words Alone seem to
Change Them into Four Aces, and afterwards to Make Them all Blank
Cards.
Take four kings in your hand, and apparently show them, then after some
words as charms, throw them down upon the table, taking one of the
kings away, and adding another card; then taking them up again, and
blowing upon them, you show them transformed into blank cards, white on
both sides; then throwing them down with their faces downward, take
them up again, and blowing upon them, you show four aces. To do this
feat, you must have cards made on purpose, half cards we may call them;
that is, one half kings and the other half aces, that by laying the
aces, one over the other, nothing but kings will be seen, then turning
the kings downward the four aces will be seen; but you must have
two whole cards, one a
king, to cover the aces, or else it will be perceived; and the other an
ace, to lay over the kings when yon mean to show the aces; when you
would make them all blank, lay the cards a little lower, and hide the
aces, and they will appear all white.
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