THE CONJURER'S CARD-CASE.
After having performed several tricks with a pack of cards, a common
card-box is shown, proved empty by being held npside down and the wand
being freely rattled about in it. The pack of cards are thrust in, the
cover put on, but instantly removed, when, on reversing the box, not
the cards, but a handful of bran flows out.
Explanation.—The card-case is free of mechanism, and
can be examined by the audience, as well as its cover. But it is not
the pack of cards which is taken up to be put in the case, but a box
accurately fitting the interior of the latter; which box has one side
formed of a court card, and the other of the figured back of a card.
This box has one end open, thus serving as a container for some bran.
Action.—The dummy pack is half filled with bran, and is
ready to take the place of the real pack. It is inserted in the
card-case bottom down, and kept in it, when it is opened anew, by
pressure on the card-case, or the mere tightness of its fit. The bran
naturally runs out when the case is held upside down : voila tout!
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