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This sleight will be found especially useful when, in the trick of passing a number of cards from the left hand into the trousers pocket, the conjurer finds himself with the last three, four or five cards (de-pending upon the routine used) to send upon their invisible journey. To execute this special palm:

1. Display the last few cards in a fan in the right hand. Square the cards with the left fingers and, holding the packet face out with the sides horizontal, grasp it between the left thumb and first and second fingers near its lower left corner, Fig. 1.

2. Place the right palm over the face of the packet, in the same position one would use to actually palm the cards, and swiftly draw the hand upwards. This action should be quick and casual, as though merely squaring the ends of the packet, and immediately afterwards the right thumb and fingers must be drawn along the sides in a similar squaring action. This gesture is a feint to prepare the spectators for that in the course of which the cards actually will be palmed.

3. Fan the cards once more in the right hand, requesting the spectators to remember them, and again take the packet horizontally between the left thumb and first and second fingers at the lower left corner, exactly as before. Place the right hand over the packet lengthwise and palm it, but in drawing the hand upwards, re-retain the face card with the left fingers and carry away the cards behind it, the left thumb aiding in the action by pushing these cards upwards, Fig. 2. Turn the right hand downwards immediately to square the sides of the remaining card as in the feint.

With a minimum of practice, it will be found that the cards behind the face card can be palmed in a flash, the right hand merely moving upwards over the face of the packet to square the ends and then lengthwise to square the sides.

The one remaining card (supposedly several cards) is then placed in the left hand against the palm and the cards palmed in the right hand are carried to the right trousers pocket to be produced therefrom in due course.