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THE YOUNG SCIENTIST. 
gether, and then are placed on top of each 
other, forming apparently an ordinary pack. 
Armed with a pack of this kind, the magi- 
cian goes into his audience, and approaching 
some lady or gentleman, begs that a card may 
be drawn. As the person puts out his hand 
to take the card, the performer runs off the 
first eight for him to select from, keeping the 
others in one solid mass. To the next person 
he runs out the second eight, and so on until 
six cards are selected. Of course in each in- 
stance all but the cards from which one is to 
be selected, are kept together in a solid mass, 
and there is no temptation to any person to 
draw one of them. 
It is, as I have said, a very clumsy method of 
doing the trick, and not to be compared to legit- 
imate /orciw^r. Before I can explain this, it will 
be necessary to explain the first great principle 
of card manipulation, known as making the 
Making the pass consists in passing one or 
more cards from the bottom to the top of the 
pack, or vice versa. By this means the con- 
juror not only knows where certain cards are 
to be found, but has them completely under 
his control, and can, in a second, change the 
position of a card from the place in the pack 
where the audience have just seen it, to such 
place as may best suit him. 
To perform this most important piece of 
legerdemain, hold the pack in the left hand, and 
spread it open with the right so that a card can 
be taken from it. The card having been 
drawn, separate the pack into two parts, and 
extending the part which is in the left hand, 
request the person who drew the card to place 
it on top of that packet ; this being done, put 
the packet which is in the right hand upon the 
top of the left hand packet, letting the third 
finger of the left hand come between the two. 
This will make an opening between the pack- 
ets, but being at the end which is towards the 
performer,and the 
other end appear- 
ing closed, the 
presence of the 
third finger will 
not be suspected. 
The pack is now 
in the position 
shown in this cut ; 
next, with the 
thumb and the 
Fig. 3. 
two middle fingers of the right haud, seize the 
two ends of the lower packet so that the pack is 
now held, as represented in Fig. 4. 
Fig, 4. 
Everything is now in order to make the pass, 
which is done as follows : the right hand 
presses one side of the lower packet into the 
fork formed by the forefinger and thumb of 
the left hand, and holds it there, while the 
fingers of the left hand which hold the upper 
packet are drawn back as if to open the hand, 
the right hand being slightly arched to allow 
of this ; the lower packet is then raised by the 
right hand, until the edges of the two packets 
meeting, form an angle as in Fig. 5. 
Fig. 5. 
The fingers of the left hand are now closed, 
and the upper packet in this way laid on the 
palm, while the lower one is placed on top of 
it, the position of the two being thus reversed. 
