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At first sight this method may seem to be too audacious to be successful, but in its very boldness lies its safety. Its execution adds a little extra to that inward glow so dear to the heart of the wizard when he succeeds in barefacedly deceiving his victims.

We will suppose that in the course of a trick you have had occasion to turn the top card face upwards several times. You have done this by pushing the card off the pack a little with the left thumb and then striking it with the side of the right forefinger as the right hand is brought upwards in a vertical position, the fingers and thumb pointing straight to the front, Fig. 1.

When you wish to palm the card:

1. Turn it face upwards on the pack in the manner just described and bring the right hand over the pack, close the fingers and thumb on the ends and draw the hand back to the right in the action of squaring the cards.

2. Turn the card face downwards in the same way but, this time, bend the first joint of the right forefinger on the outer corner of the card as it turns over, pressing the inner corner of the same side of the card against the root of the thumb. Turn the right hand completely over the pack as before and draw the fingers and thumb back along the ends, squaring the cards.

The bending of the fingers will place the card against the inside of the right hand in the regular palming position. After pushing the card over the right side of the pack, the left thumb must move to the left side, Fig. 2.

In the action the right side of the body must be to the front so that the back of the right hand is towards the spectators.