Novel Beginning for a Four Ace Trick

Having secretly got the four aces to the bottom of the pack, riffle shuffle several times and make several false cuts, leaving the aces in position. Spread the deck and invite a spectator to touch any four cards at different points and to draw each card half way out without looking at the faces.

Close the fan, leaving the four cards protruding and secretly riffle off the four aces at the bottom with the right thumb, holding the break with the left little finger tip. Take the inner end of the pack, above the break, with the right thumb and middle finger and strip out the four protruding cards together with the four aces below them. At once drop the pack on the eight cards.

"Oh, my mistake," you exclaim, "I meant to put those four cards on the table." Draw off the four bottom cards, the aces, and put them face down on the table. Hand the pack to the spectator and, telling him you are going to show him a pretty trick with the aces, ask him to pick them out and at the same time to see that there are only four in the pack.

He fails to find any aces at all. The four cards on the table are turned over--they are the aces. Mr. Audley Walsh, the noted New Jersey magician, is the originator of this pretty feat.