EFFECT.--A coin dropped down the sleeve is slowly rubbed out through the
cloth at the elbow.
REQUISITES.--Two coins exactly alike.
PRESENTATION.--First secretly place one of the coins between the buttons
at the end of your left coat sleeve. Then stand with your right side
towards spectators with the left arm extended, but slightly bent at the
elbow. After having the coin examined, proceed to drop it down the
sleeve of the extended arm, when it will fall to the elbow, and ask a
spectator to feel that it is really there. Proceed by placing thumb of
right hand on the side of sleeve toward spectators, and the fingers at
the back, and rub the hand up and down the sleeve from the elbow to the
cuff, and at the same time secretly gain possession of the coin between
the buttons and bring it down behind the sleeve towards the elbow. Now
with a slow pinching movement bring the coin down between the thumb and
fingers and apparently out through the cloth of the sleeve, meanwhile
moving the left arm up and down slightly. The coin left in the sleeve
can be secretly got away by dropping the arm and allowing it to fall
into the hand and then pocketed.