I. UNLIGHTED CIGARETTES
So many sleights and moves with cigarettes have been invented that the mere enumeration of them would take up too much space. The interest in most of them, however, is confined to the specialist, the basic sleights being comparatively few and the only ones of use to a practical operator. I shall begin by describing the various holds whereby a cigarette is retained in the hand secretly.
SECRET HOLDS
1. THE THUMB GRIP
This consists in holding the cigarette by one end in the fold formed when the thumb is pressed against the side of the hand. It is by far the easiest and most useful hold for the cigarette and also, as we shall see later, for a thimble. The free end should slant toward the base of the little finger and the top joint of the thumb, separated as far as possible from the first finger. The fingers can be slightly separated, the cigarette being shielded by the palm of the hand (Fig. 1).
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