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By means of this shuffle any small number of cards which need not be in any particular sequence can be kept intact at the top of the pack. For instance, let us assume that you wish to retain the thirteen cards of a suit at the top, in any sequence, for such a trick as The Mind Mirror, page 236. Here is the procedure:

1. Undercut somewhat less than half the pack, injog the first card and shuffle off the remainder of the cards.

2. Undercut at the injog and run the first six cards of the undercut, these being desired cards.

3. Throw the undercut on top of the other packet, making it project half an inch outwards.

4. Make a break at the point of junction of the two packets in squaring the pack by placing the right thumb at the inner end and pushing the upper packet inwards with the fingers. Hold the break with the right thumb.

5. Take the pack in the right hand, the fingers at the outer end, the thumb at the inner end retaining the break.

6. Riffle the lower half, up to the break, onto the left fingers, rest the outer side of this packet on the right finger tips, grasp its ends between the left thumb and fingers and make an end riffle shuffle. The top six cards of both packets are cards of the original stock and, by taking care to riffle these top cards together, the original stock will be returned to the top of the assembled deck.