19 THE BLAOE ART. 24.— To Change a card that's been put isr a box. A box must be made on purpose, with a double bottom, and upon the false one is to be laid the card which the first person chooses. In locking the box, by a secret spring the false bottom is raised with the eardj and firmly united… … In making a person draw a card, a duplicate of this is forced upon him ; for if he atteinpts to draw another, under some pretence 3 ou shuffle the cards again, till at last he takes the very card you intended for him. This card you know by feeling it, it being purposely longer than any of the rest,…
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