3. VANISH OF FOUR THIMBLES SIMULTANEOUSLY
Stand with your right side to the front and show the back of the right hand at about the height of the left elbow, the fingers extended and each of them capped with a thimble. Drop the hand a little in preparing for the throw, and bend the four fingers into the palm as far as possible (Fig. 11). Then bend the thumb down tightly, bringing its side on top of the thimbles; withdraw the fingers, leaving the thimbles under the thumb, and extend them, widely separated (Fig. 12), in completing the throw.
The sleight is not difficult but it is well to practice it first with thimbles on the first three fingers only, adding the little-finger thimble when the action has become familiar. It is the most startling of all thimble manipulations and can be done with either hand with equal facility. The thimbles can be reproduced, one by one, after the vanish by simply bending the fingers in turn and picking them up. Apart from its great value as a vanish, the sleight is a most valuable exercise for the fingers.
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