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INTRODUCTION
PALMING
TRICKS WITH COINS
TRICKS WITH COMMON OBJECTS
TRICKS WITH CUPS & BALLS
TRICKS WITH HANDKERCHIEFS
CHINESE TRICKS
TRICKS AT TABLE
TRICKS WITH CARDS
GENERAL REMARKS
THE TABLE & DRESS
SLEIGHTS & PROPERTIES FOR GENERAL USE
TRICKS WITH CARDS
TRICKS WITH HANDKERCHIEFS & GLOVES
TRICKS WITH COINS
MISCELLANEOUS
THE CORNUCOPIAN HAT
TRICKS WITH WATCHES & LIVE STOCK
SHAM MESMERISM, CLAIRVOYANCE, etc.
FINAL INSTRUCTIONS
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It is sometimes required of the
performer to show that his hands do not contain any coin. If a coin is palmed in one of them,
he must first exhibit the other open in a very ostentatious manner, and,
whilst the audience is momentarily engaged in looking at it, press
the coin, by means of the thumb, through the fingers of the hand in which it is held,
so that it protrudes at the back, and cannot be seen from the front (Fig. 6).
Some performers have brought this palm to a great state of perfection.
One very telling effect is to pretend to throw the coin away. For this purpose,
it is held between the tips of the first finger and thumb, whilst lying upon the
side of the middle finger. As the action of throwing is imitated, the forefinger is
slid over the coin, the thumb being removed, and the coin thus made to protrude at
the back of the hand.
Other fanciful methods of palming exist, but they will be of no practical use to the conjuror,
so I have omitted descriptions of them.
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