IV. TRICKS WITH CARDS
Before attempting to follow the explanations of the tricks to be explained, the reader must understand fully that the effect of a card trick is just what the performer makes it. To have a card drawn from a pack noted, replaced, and the pack shuffled, then to discover it and hand it back with the words “That’s your card,” may be very intriguing to a fellow magician who does not happen to know the particular sleight you have employed; but to a layman it is a mere curiosity. That sort of thing is not magic. Every trick should have a plot, no matter how far-fetched or how ridiculous in cold blood; it should be clothed with sprightly talk, garnished with amusing incidents in the development of the plot, and, above all, have a definite climax. Worked up on these lines, the simplest trick can be made to appear as a brilliant feat of magic. It is impossible to devote the space which would be necessary to develop in this manner every trick that follows, but one example will be given which will serve as a pattern.
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