The boy magician : a large number of the latest and best tricks carefully selected for the rising generation of conjurers (1922)
Dixie, Raymond, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Boston : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. · leaf 81
ectacular,of all card ruffles is the Cascade,or fall of cards. This extraor-dinary feat consists of holdingthe pack in one hand and let-ting the cards drop one at atime successively into yourother hand so that they will form a stream between themas shown in Fig. 24. To do this ruffle, grip the pack… … Fig. 24.—The Cascade CARD SLEIGHT OF SKILL 73 hand directly under your right and squeeze the cards aspreviously described. Now, instead of applying enoughpressure to spring the card out of your hand, you graduallyrelax the pressure so that the cards will fall separately, andeach in turn at space…
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