TO CHANGE A CARD BY WORDS.
You must have two cards of the same sort in the pack, say the king of
spades. Place one next the bottom card (say seven of hearts), and the
other at top. Shuffle the cards without displacing those three, and
show a person that the bottom card is the seven of hearts. This card
you dexterously slip aside with your finger, which you have previously
wetted, and taking the king of spades from the bottom, which the person
supposes to be the seven of hearts, lay it on the table, telling him to
cover it with his hand.
Shuffle the cards again, without displacing the first and last card,
and shifting the other king of spades from the top to the bottom, show
it to another person. Yon then draw that privately away, and taking the
bottom card, which will then be the seven of hearts, you then lay that
on the table and tell the second person (who believes it to be the king
of spades) to cover it with his hand.
You then command the cards to change places; and when the two
parties take off their hands and turn up their cards, they will see, to
their great astonishment, that your commands are obeyed.
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