+----------------+ +----------------+ | _Bottom._ | | _Top._ | | | | | | 2 | | | | | | | | _Thumb._ | | | | 3 | | | | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | |_Little Finger._| | | +----------------+ +----------------+ C The hands and the two parts of the cards being thus disposed, you draw off the lower cards, confined by the little finger and the other parts of the right hand, and place them, with an imperceptible motion, on the top of the pack. But before you attempt any of the tricks that depend on _making the pass_, you must have great practice, and be able to perform it so dexterously and expeditiously, that the eye cannot detect the movement of the hand; or you may, instead of deceiving others, expose yourself. _The Long Card._--Another stratagem, connected with the performance of many of the following tricks, is what is termed the _Long Card_; that is, a card, either a trifle longer or wider than the other cards, not perceptible to the eye of the spectator, but easily to be distinguished by the touch of the operator. _The Divining Card._ Provide a pack in which there is a long card; open it at that part where the long card is, and present the pack to a person in such a manner that he will naturally draw that card. You then tell him to put it into any part of the pack, and shuffle the cards. You take the pack, and offer the same card in like manner to a second or third person, taking care that they do not stand near enough to see the card each other draws. You then draw several cards yourself, among which is the long card, and ask each of the parties if his card be among those cards, and he will naturally say _yes_, as they have all drawn the same card. You then shuffle all the cards together, and, cutting them at the long card, you hold it before the first person, so that the others may not see it, and tell him that is his card. You then put it in the pack, shuffle it, cut it again at the same card, and hold it to the second person. You can perform this recreation without the long card, in the following manner: Let a person draw any card, and replace it in the pack. You then _make the pass_, (see p. 107,) and bring that card to the top of the pack, and shuffle them, without losing sight of that card. You then offer that card to a second person, that he may draw it, and put it in the middle of the pack. You _make the pass_, and shuffle the cards a second time in the same manner, and offer the card to a third person, and so again to a fourth or fifth. _The Four Confederate Cards._