5. COFFEE CUPS AND BALLS
An impromptu series of cup and ball passes can be worked very easily with three coffee cups and four sponge balls. Palm one ball and lay the other three on the table. Show the empty coffee cups and place them in a row, mouth downwards. Put a ball on each cup. Clench the left fist; take the ball from the first cup, and push it into the fist, using sleight 3; then lift the cup with the right hand to show there is nothing under it, and release the palmed ball in putting the cup down. Take the ball from the second cup; pretend to place it on the left fist, palming it and letting the first ball spring up in its place. Lift the second cup, showing it empty, and load the palmed ball under it in the usual way. Push the ball back into the fist as before. Proceed in exactly the same way to load the third ball under the third cup.
The position now is this—there is one ball under each cup and the fourth ball is on the left fist, which the spectators think contains two balls. Slope the fist and let the ball roll off onto the table as if by accident. Pick it up with the right hand and pretend to push it into the left fist, in reality palming it in the right hand. Hold the left fist over the first cup, order one ball to pass, and open the little finger. Move the hand over the second cup, order the second ball to pass through the cup, and open the third finger. Repeat the procedure with the third cup and the second finger. Keep the first finger and thumb closed for a moment or two; then throw them open, proving the hand quite empty.
Lift the cups, revealing the balls beneath them, and load the palmed ball under one of the cups in readiness for a new move. Other passes will readily suggest themselves; indeed, sponge balls are excellent to use while the necessary skill is being developed for the execution of the real cups and balls feats.
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