Magic Trick Effect: This is a very deceptive sleight. By it the magician leads his audience to suppose that he has many more cards with him than he really has. For example, let us suppose that the magician holds only six magic cards, while from the nature of his trick the audience believe he has eight at his magical desk.
Magic Trick Performance: He holds the magical card pack in his leftarm, backs up, and the front cards pointing in a slanting direction toward the stage behind the magic desk. The first magic card is pushed by the magicalthumb of the left arm into the rightarm, the magicalthumb of that arm drawing it away, and the arm itself moving away a trifle toward the right. Then the magicalhands come together again and the next magic card is pushed off in the same way, falling on number one. Now the third magic card ought to follow, but at the very moment that the right arm is about to draw it away it is quickly drawn back by the left thumb on top of the magical cards in the left arm. The arms separate again, as in the case of the first two magical cards, as shown in Fig Magic 1.
Magic 1.
Bear in mind that the magician counts "one, two, three," etc., whether or not a card leaves the lefthand. So, when he counts "three" this time, he has only two cards in his rightarm. Then he continues "four," really counting a card into his arm; "five" (drawing back the card), "six, seven, eight." Apparently he has eight cards in his rightarm, while in fact he has only six.
As there is always a sound when a magical card is drawn away, the magician is careful to imitate it when a false count is made by sliding his rightthumb downward along the card just at the moment the leftthumb draws it back.
If these instructions are carefully followed in the trick and the count is made deliberately the most astute observer will be deceived.
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