6. TO LOAD A LARGE BALL OR FRUIT UNDER A CUP
In lifting a cup with the right hand to show a ball just passed under it, turn slightly to the left and with the left hand take the large ball or fruit from the left coat pocket. Fix your whole attention on the ball just uncovered; put the cup in your left hand, which comes up to meet it—its back to the front and capping the ball or fruit, which you then retain in the cup with the help of the little finger. Leave the cup in the left hand, and with the right hand quickly pick up the ball just uncovered and show it. In the meantime with the fingers of the left hand force the ball upwards, wedge it in the cup, and put the cup mouth upwards on the table.
Load the second cup in the same way but, for the third one, reverse the movements of the hands; that is to say, lift the cup with the left hand and load it with the right hand, which has taken the necessary article from the right coat pocket. The position, then, is this—there are three small balls visible on the table and three cups, supposed to be empty, mouth upwards.
Pocket the three balls and turn the cups mouth downwards, lightly in order not to dislodge their contents. Raise the two outer cups with the right and left hands, as you remark, “Nothing here, nor here. You see the cups are really empty at last”; replace them with a slight tap to free the large ball or fruit.
“And nothing here,” you continue as you lift the middle cup and put it down in the same way. Finally pronounce your mystic formula; lift the cups quickly, revealing the contents, and lay them down with the mouths toward the spectators.
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