3. THE MULTIPLICATION OF BILLS
Effect. The effect of this excellent opening trick is that a single bill is suddenly multiplied into fifteen or twenty.
Preparation. To prepare, stack the required number of bills neatly one on the other, fold them lengthwise, then in half the opposite way and in half again.
Tuck the packet in a fold of the left sleeve at the elbow, the opening of the fold toward the wrist.
Method. Show a single bill in the right hand; pull back the right sleeve with the left hand, casually showing all parts of the right hand. Transfer the bill to the left hand and with the right hand pull back the left sleeve, at the same time stealing the package of bills. Take the bill again with the right hand and hold the package behind it with the thumb.
Hold the bill vertically, between the fingers and thumbs of both hands, at the ends (Fig. 7); bring the hands together end jerk them apart as if testing the bill, and under cover of this movement open out the packet lengthwise; then get the right thumb into the fold, remove the left hand, strike the bills on the back of the left hand, and fan them out quickly—displaying the sudden multiplication with surprising effect.
The trick may be used as an opener with a bill of your own, with a borrowed bill prior to using it for a trick, or as a means of substituting a bill of your own for a borrowed bill—the duplicate of which is to be produced at the climax of a trick. In the last case put your duplicate bill at the bottom of the pile and, when the multiplication has been made, peel it off and hand it to the spectator from whom you borrowed a bill, as being his, with the request that he take a note of the number.
While this is being done, you may say, “Since this money has cost me nothing, I am always glad to distribute the bills as souvenirs”; you make a motion of doing so, then stop and add, “Perhaps I had better do my trick first”—and you pocket the bills.
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