TO TELL A SELECTED CARD, WITHOUT SEEING IT TILL YOU FIND IT IN THE PACK

As you hold the cards in your hand, let any one take a card out of the

pack, and look at it; then take the card from them with your eyes shut,

and put it at the bottom of the pack; then shuffle the cards till you

know it is come to the bottom again: then putting the cards behind you,

pretend you shuffled them behind you, but let your shuffling be only

this; take off the uppermost card, and put it at the bottom, reckon that

two; then take off another card, and reckon that three; then take off as

many as you please from the top, and put them at the bottom, counting to

yourself how many you take off: then bring the cards forth, and hold

them with their faces towards you; then take off one by one, privately

counting the number, and smell them, as though you found it out by your

nose, till you come to the right card; then produce it, saying this is

it: and they will wonder how you found it out.

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