Draw a sharp knife gently across the middle of four kings of an ordinary
pack. Peel the picture carefully from one half of the cards, and paste
upon the blank part the four half pictures of four queens, which have
been peeled off in the same manner. In this way you have four cards,
each representing both a king and a queen.
To these prepared cards add an ordinary king and queen. These six cards
you fan out, from the left to the right, in such a manner that only the
kings are visible.
This is easily done if you keep the ordinary king at the end of the fan
to the right, and the queen concealed behind it. You show the five
kings, say that you will change them into five queens, blow upon the
cards, reverse them, placing the king behind the queen, and display them
as five queens.
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