No. 2. The Book Change

You hold the pack vertically on its side in the left hand, face card outward, the lower side resting on your outstretched fingers near their roots.

With the right forefinger and thumb grip the lower corners of the deck and carry forward about half the cards to the tips of the left fingers, at the same time allowing several cards to fall forward, face down, behind these cards on to the left fingers. (Fig. 1).

Take these cards with the tips of the thumb and forefinger, by their outer corners, holding them at right angles to, and hidden by, the packet already held by the same digits.

Bend your right hand a little inward toward the body, and call attention to the face card of the packet in the left hand, naming it. (Fig. 2). Replace the right hand in front of the left, again resting the hidden cards on the left fingers and, as yon name the card at the face of this portion, you bring the right hand up a little. Under cover of this you close the left fingers, carrying the concealed cards up against the face card of the left hand packet, book fashion, at the same moment you turn the left hand over, bringing the backs of the cards to the front.

Rub the back of the left hand with the cards in your right, then slowly turn the left hand round and show that the change has taken place.