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This sleight will be found very useful in secretly bringing together several cards which have been openly placed in different parts of the pack. It can be used with three, four or even five cards, but for the sake of illustration we will suppose that the four aces are used. The moves follow:

a. 1. Hold the pack face downwards in the left hand between the top joints of the thumb on one side and the second, third and fourth fingers on the other; insert the aces, one by one, in different places in the outer end, allowing them to project an inch.

2. With the left forefinger secretly push the bottom card outwards until it is even with the projecting cards.

3. Place the right hand over the deck, the thumb at the inner end, the fingers over the ends of the five projecting cards and apparently push them flush with the pack, really press them to the left, as shown in 2 of Fig. 1 and press them through the pack diagonally, Fig. 2. Press on the projecting corners with the left little finger, straightening the five cards and jogging them for about half an inch at the inner end of the pack, as shown in 3 of Fig. 1. The whole action, which takes but a second, should be covered by the right hand.

4. Turn the left hand over, bringing its back upwards with the pack face upwards, and grip the five jogged cards between the second joint of the left little finger and the flesh at the base of the thumb. Seize the pack by the sides near the right end with the thumb and second finger, Fig. 2, and strip the five cards from the pack with the left hand, dropping them face upwards on the table with the indifferent card at the face of the packet concealing the aces.

5. In like fashion strip small packets of cards from the face of the deck with the left hand in a running cut until the entire pack has been dropped onto the table.

When the pack is picked up and turned face downwards the four aces will be together on the top and available for disposal as may be necessary.

b. In this case you hold the pack face upwards and insert the aces, following the action in a but without pushing an indifferent card forward. After pushing the four cards through diagonally and jogging them at the inner end, proceed as follows:

1. Immediately turn the left hand over, holding the pack between the left fingers and the crotch of the thumb. Press the jogged cards firmly between the second joint of the left little finger and the base of the thumb, this condition of the pack being concealed by the back of the hand.

2. Make a running cut by stripping small packets of cards from the bottom of the pack with the right thumb and second fingers, grasping them by the sides near the outer ends and dropping them on the table.

3. Continue the action until the four jogged cards only remain in the left hand. Seize them in exactly the same manner and drop them on the top of the tabled pack.

The action in both cases is easy and completely deceptive.