The Placer herald., 1866-07-28
A Curious Card Trick.


Begin by laying out the cards in four rows
according to the suits, all of suit in row
side by side. The cards must now be ar,
ranged
Take up the sac in the top or bottom row
then the ten in the third, and the nine in the
fauyM placing them one upon the other in
the left hand. Then begin again with the
row from which you took the sir and take
up the three. From the next row take the
king. These numbers will be easily remem.
bered with little practice, amounting al
together to 80, made up thus-6 and 2 are
8, and 10 are Is, ls and are 81, 81 and
3 are 3o-kiog. BY repeating this addition
few time it i'll be fixed in the memory.
Proceed by next beginning with the row
next to the one from which you took the
last card or the king, and take eight; from
the next row take the four; from the next
the ace; from the next the knape. Therefore
say and are IL and are l3--knave
From the next row TO that whence you took
the knave take the seven, from the next row
take the five, from the next the queen
These cards make up l2. Thus aud 5 are
l2-queen. 1t thus appears that you have
taken up thirteen cards, consisting of the
four suits, successfully taken and being ar
ranged as folows-6, 2, 10, 0, 8, king; 8, a.,
J., knave; 7, s, queen.
Proceed in like manner with the remain
der OF the cards, beginning with the row
next that from which you took the queen,
and take the six, then from the next row the
two, and SO on as efore, making up another
batch OF thirteen cards. Repeat the process
for the third batch, and finish with the re,
mainder for The tourth-always remember.
ing TO take the card from the next row ir
succession continually; in other words, oul,
one card must be taken from each row a
a tune.
When the cards are thus arranged reques
person to cut them. You must take care
dexierously to replace the cnt just rs it was
before. Now take up the pack. and from
he bottom take the first four cards, handing
the remainder to party sitting before you,
saying: II now call every card in succ S.
sion from the top Of the pack in your hand"
10 do this two things must be remembered
and there is no difficulty in it, First the
numbers 9, 2, 10, o, 8, king, & before given,
and next the suit of those cards. Now you
know the numbers by heart, and the suit is
shown by the four cards which you hold in
your hand, fanlike, in the usual way.
If the first of the four cards be club,
the first card you call on will be the six of
clubs; if the next be heart, the next card
will be the two OF hearts, and SO on through.
out the thirteen made up from every row,
as before given, and the suits of each card
will be indicated successvey by the suit OF
each Of your four Indicator cards, thus as the
case may be, clubs, hearts, diamonds, spades
clubs, hearts, diamonds spades, and SO on
After little private practice, you will
readily call, as the case may be, from the
four cards in your hand, the six ofcubs two
of hearts, ten of diamonds, nine of spades,
three of clubs, king of hearts, eight of da-
monds, four Of spades, ace of clubs, knave of
hearts, seven of diamonds, five of spades,
queen of clubs, and SO on TO the last card
in the pack. In the midst of the aslopish.
ment produced by this seemingly prodgous
display Of memory, say. Now if you like,
we will have hand at whist, and under.
take to win every trick if be allowed to
deal" Let the whist party be formed, and
get tho cards cut as usual-only taking
care TO replace them, as before enjoined,
PRECISELY as they were. Deal the cards, and
the result will be that your thirteen cards
will be all trumps.