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Show OLD SPELLING SCHOOL TRICK One of the Most Interesting and Puzzling Puz-zling of Deceptions Which Can Be Done With Cards, The "old spelling school" trick is one of the most interesting and baffling of the many which can be done with cards. All the cards in any suit are required for the trick, which consists in "stacking" the thirteen cards in such a manner that when held in the hand, face down, and changing a card from top to bottom, with each letter spelling the number or name of the card, the one desired will come out in regular order. One comes first, then two, and so on to jack, queen, king. In placing the cards lh position the fourth from the top of the pack as held in the hand, face down, must be the ace, o-n-e; the eighth, the two spot, i Who can tell how to arrange the remaining re-maining eleven cards so that, placing a card at bottom for each letter, three, four, five, up to the king, come out? It will be noted fifty-two letters are required to spell the numbers and names of all the cards in a suit. |