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Show Parlor Magic. "To do this trick with cards," explained ex-plained the parlor magician, "you must first slip the card selected upon the bottom of the pack. Then, while talking on somo interesting subject, you should peep at tho card. Having fixed it in your memory, you count 100, adding to that tho number of spots on tho card, multiply this by 62 and divide by four becauso thero are C2 cards in tho deck and four suits of cards. Take tho result, subtract 13, becauso thero aro that many cards in a suit, ask tho person who drew the card If ho or sho remembers what it was, and then draw It from tho bottom bot-tom of tho 'pack and show it to him. or her." "But," sayB one of the audience, "wouldn't it ho Just ns easy to take It from the bottom at tho start?" "True, but wouldn't you rob tiin feat of all its myEtery?" |