THE FORCED CARD TRICK EXPOSED.

There are other methods of putting up cards for the purpose of knowing the order in which they will run off. The preceding, however, are sufficient to satisfy any one that this can be done, and that none need bet against it with the expectation of winning.

There are other tricks of drawing cards. A man will hold you a pack of cards, and tell you to draw one; and after you have drawn one, put it back in the pack, and shuffle the pack. He then offers to bet that he can tell what it is. You might, after the pack had been so well shuffled, suppose it quite impossible. But do not bet on it, for he can tell. If they should be advantage cards, he can tell by the back when you draw it out; if they are not, he will sometimes force a card. This is done by projecting a little some three or four cards that he knows, and has previously looked at. These cards, by projecting a little, are most handy to you, and you will be likely to take one of them: if so, he knows what you have got as soon as you draw it.

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