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Amusing Card Tricks

Having thus arranged the cards for a few moments, you ask the
party to perform his promise by pointing out his card. Feeling
sure that he never lost sight of it, he instantly turns one of
the cards and is astonished to find that it is not his own. Then
you say:--'I told you you would not be able to follow your card
in its ramble. But I have done what you couldn't do: here is
your card!'

The astonishment of the spectators is increased when you actually
show the card; for, having made them observe in the first
instance, that you did not even look at the drawn card, they are
utterly at a loss to discover the means you employed to find out
and produce the card in question.

14. Cards being drawn from a pack, to get them guessed by a
person blindfolded.

At all these performances there are always amongst the spectators
persons in league with the prestidigitator. In the present case
a woman is the assistant, with whom he has entered into an
arrangement by which each card is represented by a letter of the
alphabet; and the following are the cards selected for the trick
with their representative letters.

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