TO PLACE THE FOUR KNAVES UPON ONE ANOTHER SO THAT ONLY THE UPPER HALF OF EACH CARD IS VISIBLE.
Upon the lower half of one of four knaves place the upper half of the second at right angles; upon the lower half of the second knave place the upper half of the third, also rectangularly; then the upper half of the fourth knave upon the under half of the third; and lastly push the under half of the fourth knave under the upper half of the first, and the trick is done.
TO CHANGE FIVE KINGS INTO FIVE QUEENS.
Draw a sharp knife gently across the middle of four kings of an ordinary pack. Peel the picture carefully from one half of the cards, and paste upon the blank part the four half pictures of four queens, which have been peeled off in the same manner. In this way you have four cards, each representing both a king and a queen.
To these prepared cards add an ordinary king and queen. These six cards you fan out, from the left to the right, in such a manner that only the kings are visible.
This is easily done if you keep the ordinary king at the end of the fan to the right, and the queen concealed behind it. You show the five kings, say that you will change them into five queens, blow upon the cards, reverse them, placing the king behind the queen, and display them as five queens.
THE SHUFFLED TEN.
Let a person remember the numerical position of a chosen card replaced in the pack. On taking the pack into your hand, bring a certain number of cards, say ten, from the top to the bottom.
Mentally take that number from the whole number of cards, fifty-two with a full pack, and boldly tell the company that the selected card will be the forty-second, reckoning from the card itself. If his card was the tenth, you count it eleven, twelve, thirteen, and so on, and his card will come out as announced.