3. REPLACING PALMED CARDS ON THE PACK
A problem that recurs constantly in the working of card tricks is this—you have a card, or cards, palmed in the right hand, a spectator has shuffled the pack and is ready to return it to you, how are you to take it naturally and without exposing the palmed cards?
The usual solution is to take the pack from the spectator with the left hand and put the palmed cards on top with the right hand. One might just as well tell the spectator right out, for the inference from such action is plain. Yet the solution is an easy one—simply hold out your left hand palm upwards and, making a natural gesture with the right hand, invite the spectator to place the pack on it, face down, and make a free cut. As soon as he takes the top portion, pick up the lower part with your right hand, adding the palmed cards, and put the packet on top of the cut, thus reassembling the pack without any suspicious move. Point out to the spectators that not only has the pack been freely shuffled but a final cut has also been made.
In adding the palmed cards to the packet you pick up, the moment the right hand covers the packet bend the forefinger and press its tip on the middle of the back of the palmed cards (Fig. 14). This not only disguises the operation but the bend caused by palming is taken out.
The difficulty in replacing palmed cards on the pack is this—if the pack is taken naturally it will be grasped between the thumb and fingers, the rest of the hand being arched well above the pack, and to bring the hand down flat is not natural. To overcome this, take the pack between the thumb and fingers, keeping the hand arched; bend the little finger in on top of the palmed cards and with it press them down on the top of the pack (Fig. 15). The movement requires practice, but if done with the hand in motion the sleight is imperceptible to the closest watcher.
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