The Burglar Card Trick

THREE CABDS ABE HIDDEN BEHjND THE FOUR JACKS IN YOUR HAND

THESE HIDDEN CARDS ARE PLACED IN THE PACK, AND THE FOUR JACKS, HELD SO AS TO APPEAR AS ONE CARD. ARE LAID ON TOP OF THE PACK.

MAKING FOUR CARDS INSIDE A PACK APPEAR ON TOP

For the sake of a story you use four Jacks in this trick. Before beginning the trick, hold one Jack in your hand, but place three other cards, any kind, behind it, and hold the four so it appears to be one card—a Jack. Then, in front of your audience, pick up the other three Jacks, making seven cards in your hand, and tell this little story. The pack of cards is a four-story house, and inside the house there is a burglar. The four Jacks are policemen, and you are going to place one of them on each floor, in an effort to capture the burglar. You take the three cards secreted behind the Jacks, and place them in different parts of the pack one at a time. Then take the four Jacks, hold them as though they are one card, and lay them on top of the pack. The burglar has been discovered on the top floor, and the officer on that floor needs help, so you tap on the pack three times as a signal to the other three policemen to come on top. Then lift the four cards on top, and presto! the four Jacks, three of which the audience thought you had placed inside the pack, appear on top. The burglar, of course, has been captured.

F-OLD THE HANDKER­CHIEFS

LIKE THIS AND THEN TWIST THEM.

WIRE CONCEALED AND ATTACHED BETWEEN TWO HANDKERCHIEFS.

BALANCING A HANDKERCHIEF ON YOUR NOSE

It is necessary to prepare for this trick by sewing two handkerchiefs together, but before doing this attach a piece of thin wire diagonally between the handkerchiefs. Then appear before your audience, spread the handkerchief, so that to all appearances there is nothing attached to it. Fold it once from corner to corner in a triangular shape and then twist and roll it into a long, narrow shape. You then stand one end on the tip of your nose and the handkerchief, supported by the wire, can be easily balanced. As the wire used is very thin, you can crumble the handkerchief up after the trick and place it in your pocket.

Magician Appears to Be a Mind Reader.

TELLING THE COLOR OF CRAYONS

Take six soft crayons, hand them to a person, and ask him to wrap one up and hide the others. When he has wrapped the crayon, you take it, hold it between your hands and behind your back, and inform the person that you can tell the color of the wrapped crayon by the way it feels. As you hold it behind your back, unwrap it, and rub the end of crayon on the nail of your thumb. Then wrap it again, hand it back to the person, and as you do so, glance at your thumb nail. The color of the crayon will be easily visible on the nail.