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The History of Playing Cards, with Anecdotes of Their Use in Conjuring, Fortune-Telling, and Card-Sharping; Ed. by Edw[ard] S[amuel] Taylor [U.A.] - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865. Excerpt: ... II. CARD-CONJURING AND CARD-SHARPING. SLEIGHT OF HAND--TEICK OF THE TEN DUPLICATES--STOBY OP THE TUEKS AND CHEISTIANS--THICK OF CABD-CHEAT TO "WIN CONFIDENCE "--OZANAM THE MATHEMATICIAN--FEATS OF CALCULATION--STOEY OF MATTHEWS, THE COMEDIAN--PENALTIES OF CABD-SHABPEES--CEUIKSHANK's "KNOWING CAEDS" BLIND HOOKEY CAED-SHAEPING--KING AND QUEEN TEICK--WHIST AND CEIBBAGE--MESSES. SIMPLE AND SHABP--A "SLAM"--MISCELLANEOUS CABD TEICKS. Theee are two principal methods used to perform conjuring tricks with playing cards; one is by calculation, generally according to a prearranged formula of words; the other by dexterity of manipulation, commonly termed sleight of hand. The first of these methods has for centuries supplied interesting problems to the mathematician and other students of the exact sciences; while the second has afforded equal facilities to the wonder-working conjuror, and the cheating sharper. As very curious and little known exercises of human ingenuity, the first of these methods demands an early notice, and a trick called the ten duplicates furnishes a good example. The problem is this, twenty cards being arranged in pairs, face upwards on the table, to tell whatever pair any of the bystanders may think upon. Any twenty cards may be taken at random out of the pack, and being placed in ten pairs, the person who performs the feat, asks the company to select, mentally, any pairs they may individually choose, warning them to pay particular attention to the cards forming each pair thought upon, as they would next be seen in a different arrangement. The company having made their selection, the performer takes up the pairs indiscriminately, taking care, however, to keep the two cards which form each pair invariably next each other, and then proceeds to ar...
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