3. PRODUCTION OF THE BALLS
Arrange the three cups in a row, mouth downwards; produce the palmed ball from the wand, show it, and lay the wand down on the table.
Place the ball in the left hand with the right; pick up cup A; and scrape the ball off the left palm onto the table, using exactly the same action as in sleight 3, “Using either method of palming the ball (1)” (see page 125).
Steal the ball from the edge of the coat and produce it from the wand; feign to put it under cup B, really palming it as in sleight 3, “Using either method of palming the ball (2)” (see page 125).
Again produce the palmed ball from the wand and feign to place it under cup C, palming it as before. Put the wand down with its end protruding over the edge of the table just above the two balls on the gimmicks. Casually put your hands in your pockets and drop the palmed ball as you ask, “How would you take a ball from under a cup? Like this?” Lift cup A with the left hand, pick up the ball with the right hand, and put the cup down with the left. “That would be very easy,” you say. “Watch how I do it.” Lift cup A with the left hand and feign to put the ball under it with the right hand, palming it.
Pick up the wand with the right hand, at the same time stealing the two balls from under the edge of the table; keep the three balls concealed by holding the wand in the hand. Make circular passes with the wand over cup A, tap it with the wand, and call attention to an imaginary ball on its tip. Pretend to remove this but really roll one of the three balls to the tips of the thumb and forefinger as you say, “Here’s one”; put the ball on the table and knock the cup over with the wand, “And nothing here.”
Repeat the same maneuver to produce the balls from cups B and C. Replace the cups in line; put two balls to one side of the table and the third in front of cup C.
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