What shall we do to-night? or, Social amusements for evening parties. Furnishing complete and varied programmes for twenty-six entertainments (1873)
Dick, William B. (William Brisbane), 1827-1901 · New York, Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 34
Fig. 12. count out the eight cards that are in it into four pairs. Thenlift the other pile and count out three pairs and an odd oneover. As there are seven pairs of cards used, each pile must con-tain seven cards; this fact is not apparent to the company ifthe trick be done neatly and quickly, and… … Tig. 13. course, make an even number of cards in the pile to which it isadded. In the cut (Fig. 1.3) the cards are represented as ifthey had been laid out into the two piles loosely; this is done inorder to explain how the seven cards come in each pile. Necromancy being in order, two of the party…
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