Conjuring tricks with coins, watches, rings and handkerchiefs; from "Modern magic" (1900)
Hoffmann, Professor, 1839-1919 · Philadelphia, D. McKay · leaf 24
right.If you at once open the left hand, and show that the coin is notthere, the spectators will naturally jump to the correct explanation,viz., that you did not, in reality, put the coin there at all. If, how-ever, you delay opening the left hand for a minute or two, so as tolet the audience get… … Fig. 75. of the wrist with the second and third fingers of the hand whichholds the coin {see Fig. 75), you not only give that hand an occupa-tion apparently inconsistent wfth the fact of anything remaining con-cealed in it, but you suggest to the audience that the gesture inquestion is the cause of…
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