THE OBEDIENT CARDS AND THE WREATH OP FLOWERS.
Several cards are drawn from the pack by the audience, and rings or
other articles are borrowed. They are all crammed into the conjurer's
pistol or gun. He looks about for a target, but can only see a wreath
of flowers suspended either from the ceiling or against the wall, or
from a rest on the table. He fires at it, and on the instant, the
borrowed rings are seen dangling within the wreath and as many cards as
were borrowed appear among its flowers. Unfortunately, as the company
hasten to point out, these were not the cards borrowed. "What, sir!"
says the performer, "you did not select that five of diamonds ?" "No,
sir; it was the four I chose!" "Indeed! and," joins in another, with
the usual good nature of aman when he thinks he has caught his
neighbour tripping— "and I chose a nine of clubs, not an eight!"
and so on. At the end of the complaints, you say "Oh, very well! we'll
soon cure that!" and taking up a peashooter and a tray containing
clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades, cut out of cardboard, you load
your peashooter with them, and fire. Thereupon the five becomes a four
and the nine an eight, or even more accommodating still are the cards.
The reader of the explanation of the foregoing trick will understand
that upon it is founded the changing of the pips. It is, in fact, only
a multiplication of the same. As for the rings, &c, being found in
the wreath, and for the way all the action is imparted to the
mechanism, please consult " The Secret Out," where ample information is
afforded.
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