THE THREE JACKS.

There is a trick often played called "the three jacks." A man will seemingly have three jacks on the top of the pack. He will put the three top cards, which you suppose to be jacks or aces, whichever he shows you, in various parts of the pack. He will then take one and put it near the bottom, and another near the middle, and another higher up, and then let you cut the cards. He then offers to bet that they are all three together in some part of the pack, which they cannot fail of being, as he has three other cards on top of the jacks when he shows you their faces, which he disperses in their stead, not moving the jacks, and the cat only places them in the middle of the pack.

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