THE THREE ACE TRICK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 279, 24 November 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE THREE ACE TRICK.

(Sent in by X. Hewitt, Royal Oak, aged 14 years.)

This is one of the best card tricks I knenv and always "brings down the house." The performer hands out a pack of cards and asks if any cards are missing. He is informed that the ace of hearts, the ace of diamonds and the aee of clubs have disappeared. "Oh," he replies, "that is strange—l must see if I can find them." He takes up a cricket bat and hands it round for examination. After it has been examined' he places it on his table and asks someone to come up and play a game of cricket. "Now, sir," he saya, "I'll go in first and you will kindly bowl for me, using the pack of cards as a ball. The member of the audience who has come up to play takes the cards and the performer takes the bat and stands two or three yards away from the bowler, lie counts' "Qne, two, three," and at the word "three" the bowler throws the cards towards him and lie strikes them with the bat, and 10, the three aees are seen sticking to the but. A little preparation is necessary for this trick. First of all take three cards from the pack (any cards) and cover their backs with as nearlj r the same pattern of material as the cloth on your table as can be found. Having covered the cards, thrust two drawing pins through the face of each so that the points protrude out the back. Now on the face of each card, over the heads of the drawing pins, gum the ace of hearts, clubs and diamonds. Before your performance place the three cards on your table, end to end. You will find they are so like your tablecloth as to lip practically invisible. In performing the trick, after the bat has heeu passed round, you take it again and place it on ycir table and over the cards, exerting a little pressure so that the points of the- pins penetrate the bat. When the person assisting you conies and bowls, you take up the bat, keeping the side to which the cards are fixed away from the audience. At the word "three." you strike the cards with the bat, at the same time turning it round, and behold, there are the three missing aces affixed to the bat.