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In his version of this popular trick Mr. Zingone uses his one-hand bottom palm with quite startling effect. The moves follow:

1. Have the pack shuffled by a spectator and then have him deal ten cards onto your left hand.

2. Have three of these cards initialled by different spectators and collect them on the top of the packet. Check the number by counting the cards into your right hand and secure a break between the three bottom cards (the initialled cards) and the remaining seven. Take the packet in the right hand by the ends in exactly the same way as for the bottom palm.

3. Again hold out your left hand to the spectator and have him deal ten more cards onto it.

4. Holding your hands well separated, ask another spectator to take out his handkerchief and hold it up by two corners. Bring your right hand to the middle-of the handkerchief at the same time executing the one-hand bottom palm with the three cards (the initialled cards). Thrust the packet of seven cards against the handkerchief and have the spectator wrap them in it and hold them.

5. Immediately remark that you haven’t checked the second packet of ten cards and count these cards from the left hand into the right, face upwards, on top of the palmed cards.

6. Take the thirteen cards with the left hand by turning it back upwards and thrusting the thumb under the palmed cards thus adding them imperceptibly to the cards just counted.

7. Hand the packet to a spectator on your left to hold between his two hands and finish the trick in the usual manner but with special emphasis that the cards that pass across are the very cards which were initialled by the spectators themselves.

This method of palming will also be found very useful in securing the first cards to be passed from the left hand in the popular trick of passing cards into the trousers pocket.