Modern magic. : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. (1885)
Hoffmann, Professor, 1839-1919, Hawkins, Arthur, ca. 1940 · London ; New York : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 48
so betweenthe edges of those in the left, spreading the cards in the meanwhile to facilitate the intro-duction j but let the right hand cards project about an inch above thetop edges of those in the left hand. (See Fig. 13.*) If you were toclose up the cards in the relative po itions they now… … Fig. 13, 26 MODERN MAGIC. would be really shuffled. To prevent their being so in fact, as wellas in appearance, you clip lengthways between the thumb and secondfinger of the right hand the cards of the packet on that side, and bendthem sharply downwards and outwards. This again disengages then,from…
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