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by WARNER PERRY

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THE

Smerald Mystery By

WARNER

PERRY

Published by

LLOYD E. JONES 4064 - 39th Avenue

Oakland, Calif

Copyrighl 1945 by Warner Perry Second Edition 1947 Lloyd E. Jones

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by WARNER PBRRV

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HIS EFFECT is released with the hope that someone will derive as much satisfaction and enjoyment from performing it as I have during the past ten years. If ever a card trick was designed to test one's ability at showmanship, I believe this is it. From the very beginning, the procedure offers an easy, convincing build-up. All moves are plain and deliberate. The fact that the magician never touches the spectator's cards only adds to the spectator's amazement at the final result. Give this effect a fair amount of practice and a fair trial and I guarantee you will not regret having learned it.

EFFECT: A deck is shown and one suit selected by having a spectator peek at a card. Deck is genuinely riffle-shuffled several times and then turned face up. Spectator takes out all cards of his suit exactly as they lie in the deck from the bottom to top. Deck is again genuinely riffle-shuffled several times. Magician selects a suit by using the suit of the card which happens to be on the bottom of the deck after the shuffle. The cards of this suit are removed exactly as they come and are placed in another pile. Spectator and magician each go through exactly the same movements with their respective piles. Each removes one card and places it reversed at a certain position in his pile.

Cards in the spectator's pile are found to have rearranged themselves in exactly the same order as those in the magician's pile, even to the extend and location of the reversed card.

PREPARATION: This trick requires two decks exactly alike. Take one of the decks and remove the 13 SPADE cards from it. Arrange these cards as follows, from the top down: 8, A, J, 5, 10, reversed 6, 3, K, 9, Q, 7, 4, 2. Place this pile in your left pant's pocket face inward along with two rubber bands. Discard the remaining cards in this deck as they are not used in the trick.

Take the other deck and remove all of the cards of the HEART suit Arrange these as follows, from the top downward: 3, J, K, 6, 9, 5, Q, A, 7, 10, 4, 8, 2. Place the packet in the deck so that the top card (3 of Hearts) occupies the 14th position from the top and the bottom card(2 of Hearts) occupies the 26th position.

PROCEDURE: Spread the deck and force one of the cards of the