A New Top Change

This sleight will be found to be an easy and undetectable method of transposing the first and second cards of the pack. The moves are as follows:

1. Turn the top card face up by pushing it over the side of the pack with the left thumb and then bringing the right from below it so that the upper side of the right forefinger strikes against the card at its outer edge. Fig. 8.

2. With the left thumb push this faced card and the next card below it outwards over the side of the deck and put the right hand flat on the faced card, covering about one half of it, the outer half. Fig. 9.

3. With the left thumb pull the faced card back over the pack and, at the same time, with the tips of the left fingers, push the card below it into the right palm. The right hand must be held stationary.

4. Turn the faced card over, bringing it face down on the pack, with the side of the right forefinger by bringing that hand upwards in exactly the same way as in move No. 1, the tips of the second and third fingers assist in lifting the outer edge of the card.

5. Deposit the palmed card on top and draw the right hand fingers and thumb along the top and bottom ends of the pack in the action of squaring the cards.

This sleight will be found specially useful in working "The Ambitious Card Trick" wherein a card repeatedly placed in the middle of the pack always appears on the top. It should be executed in exact imitation of the manner in which the card is first turned by move No. 1. Smoothly done the change is imperceptible.