PART III.
THE ENJAMBAGE, OR CUT ABOVE.
The "cut above" is a very simple and clever trick, and it is astonishing, when one knows it, to think how easily people are deceived, and that it should not be discovered. However, I candidly confess, the first time I saw it done, I was taken in, as others are.
In this trick, the Greek, instead of placing packet No. 2 on packet No. 1, passes the former over without stopping into the left hand, which he holds a little in advance, and places packet No. 1 on the top.
This trick, as well as the preceding one, is more especially practised in public-houses and places of low resort.
PART IV.
THE CARTE LARGE, OR LARGE CARD.
The heading of this division sufficiently indicates the nature of the trick I am about to describe.
It is to have one card larger than all the rest. When introduced into a pack this card, by its projection, almost forces the pack to divide, wherever the person who places it wishes.
If the Greek has previously arranged the cards as he wishes them to be, their being cut, in no way disarranges his plans, as the card alluded to remains where it was placed at the commencement of the deal.
The large card is also used by the swindler as a sort of mark, to alter the cut to wherever he thinks it would be most beneficial to him.