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This method makes an excellent subterfuge for dealing extra cards secretly on a table pile. For each extra card required a two-card push-off is made and these two cards are dealt as one in the usual manner.

For small numbers, when special care must be taken, a good plan is this: Assuming that a four ace trick is being performed and that the operator wishes to deal, apparently, three cards on the table, whereas four cards are dealt in reality:

1. Deal one card on the table.

2. Deal a second card.

3. Push off the next two cards as one, grasp both at the outer right corner and thrust the two, as one, under the tabled cards.

Finally, it is earnestly suggested that the student bear these main principles in mind at all times:

1. The principle of the right angle grip, with the left side of the pack resting against the palm above the angle thus formed.

2. The grasping and the control of the whole pack by pressure of the third and fourth fingers at the inner right side, this pressure holding the left side flat against the entire width of the palm.

3. The beveling inwards of the cards at the right corners.

4. The inward pressure to the right of the thumb arcing to push off the two cards.

5. The pivoting of the inner left corners of the two cards against the flesh of the palm.

With these points thoroughly understood, experiment should be made until the right grip of the pack for the reader’s hand is secured. This should be marked at once upon the palm and the fingers and all phases of the grip noted. It cannot be too strongly stressed that the difficulty in second dealing does not come from the action but from the placing of the pack in the hand. Two hours spent in acquiring the correct grip will prove more valuable than a hundred hours of aimless dealing of the cards.