Let a person draw four cards from the pack, and tell him to think of one
of them. When he returns you the four cards, dextrously place two of
them under the pack, and two on the top. Under those at the bottom you
place four cards of any sort, and then, taking eight or ten from the
bottom cards, you spread them on the table, and ask the person if the
card he fixed on be among them. If he say no, you are sure it is one of
the two cards on the top. You then pass these two cards to the bottom,
and drawing off the lowest of them, you ask if that be not his card. If
he again say no, you take that card up, and bid him draw his card from
the bottom of the pack. If the person say his card is among those you
first drew from the bottom, you must dextrously take up the four cards
that you put under them, and placing those on the top, let the other two
be the bottom cards of the pack, which draw in the manner before
described.
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