Talk as much as possible and make your “patter” lively, but do not try to be funny unless you are naturally humorous; and, above all, avoid allusions to politics, religion, or any subject about which there may be a diversity of opinion among your audience.

Hercat.

CONTENTS

[SIMPLE CARD TRICKS]

[An Easy Method of Finding a Selected Card]9
[To Bring a Chosen Card from the Bottom of the Pack at any Number Requested]10
[A Chosen Card Shaken through a Handkerchief]10
[A Selected Card found in a Lighted Cigarette]12
[A Sticking Card]13
[Two Selected Cards Caught in the Air]13
[An Easy but Puzzling Trick]14
[Travelling Cards]14
[To Name all the Cards in the Pack]16
[A New Method]16
[The Sense of Touch]17
[Where is the Ace?]18
[To Make a Person Name a Card which You have Yourself Selected]19
[The Clock]21
[How to Guess Cards Thought of]22
[An Ingenious Card Trick]23
[To Name a Card which Some One has Thought of]25
[The Rejected Recruits—a Laughable Trick]26
[A Novel Card Effect]26
[An Artful Card Force]28
[Another Easy Card Force]28
[A Simple but Puzzling Card Trick]29

[SIMPLE COIN TRICKS]

[How to Detect a Marked Coin]30
[A Penetrative Shilling]30
[Another Simple Trick]31
[A Coin to Disappear from Your Cheek and Reappear at Your Elbow]32
[Two Vanished Half-Crowns]33
[A Divination]33
[An Effective but Simple Trick]34
[Changing Apple and Coins]35
[An Obedient Sixpence]36
[Coin and Glass]36
[A Simple Experiment with Four Shillings]38
[Puzzle of Ten Halfpence]39
[How to Increase Your Wealth]39
[A Neat Coin Trick]40
[A Subtle Impromptu Effect with a Coin]41
[An Original Coin Swindle]42
[A Cross]43

[SIMPLE TRICKS WITH HANDKERCHIEFS, RINGS, CANDLES, ETC.]

[A Knot that Cannot be Drawn Tight]44
[To Tie an Instantaneous Knot in a Handkerchief]45
[Half a Burnt Message Found Restored in a Candle]46
[Two Good Ring Tricks]47

[SIMPLE ARITHMETICAL PROBLEMS]