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This pass, although fairly well known to expert card men, has never, to our knowledge, appeared in print. With the modifications now made in it, revealed here for the first time, the pass becomes a very valuable one. The misdirection is perfect and the execution easy.

1. Hold the pack in the left hand as for dealing, the little finger holding a break at the point at which the pass is to be made.

2. Bring the right hand over the deck and grasp it between the right thumb at the inner end, accepting and retaining the break, and the second, third and fourth fingers at the outer end, the first finger being curled on the top.

3. Curl the left forefinger on the face of the bottom card and with the right hand move the pack forward a little to enable the left thumb and little finger to grasp the upper packet firmly at the inner corners; release the left second and third fingers.

4. With the right thumb at the inner end, push the lower packet, below the break, a quarter of an inch outwards and press upwards with the left forefinger, supporting this packet and keeping it against the upper packet. This outward projection of the lower packet is hidden by the right second, third and fourth fingers.

5. Slide the right hand outward and grip the projecting end of the lower packet by curling the middle and top joints of the second, third and fourth fingers downwards and inwards.

6. Move the right hand directly to the right, carrying with it the lower packet, the inner end of which barely clears the left little finger at the inner right corner; there must be no outward motion of the right hand, Fig. 1. Immediately press the packet against the right palm with the last three fingers, concealing it with the back of the hand, and point with the forefinger to the packet in the left hand. Replace the second and third fingers of the left hand on the side of its packet.

7. Move the right hand over the left hand packet and deposit the palmed packet on it in the action of squaring the pack.

The sleight must be performed under cover of a movement to the left by both hands with the different moves taking place almost simultaneously.