The palming will be assisted rather than otherwise by taking the borrowed coin between the thumb and fingers of that hand.
If he succeed in winning with his queen, he gains a clear trick, because if his adversary throws away on the queen, the ace is certain of making a trick.
Another way of scoring points, and one which greatly facilitates business, is that of counting the honours.
Great skill in palmingis necessary for their successful use.
Upon this idea he acts, and the result is an endless number of very unamiable devices for palming off upon some one else the trouble which a man shrinks from bearing himself.
As for Lottie palming herself off as a goodish young woman to whom any sane man would talk religion,--the very thought is preposterous!
The very thought of such an incorrigible witch as you palming yourself off as a demure Puritan maiden is the climax of comical absurdity.
Palming the digits requires no ordinary degree of agility.
Till some might marvel with the modest Turk, If 'nothing follows all this palming work.
I well know that many young ladies profess entire innocence of any impure emotions during all this "palming work.
With the coin in the right hand, make a pass at the hat, palming the coin (Palm No.
Taking the pack back, replace the palmed cards upon it, re-palming the top card only, and bid your assistant place the pack in his pocket.
You may then remove one six and one king from the boxes, leaving one of each still concealed, and, placing them in the pack, bring them to the top, palming them and proceeding as directed for one card only.
Finish up by palming the card originally looked at, and remarking that you cannot understand how the mistake occurred, "for here is the card in my pocket.
If you have had the pieces put in paper, you can roll it up into a ball and vanish by palming in the right hand, whilst affecting to place it in the left, after the manner previously described for vanishing objects.
The action, which must be accompanied by the backward and forward swing used when palming coins, must be practised with both hands, the more awkward hand of the two being taught first.
The performer gives the four knaves to one of the company, and seizes an opportunity for palming three cards.
The palming of a walnut is quite as easy as that of a coin, and the pass must be regarded as a very simple one to learn.
This process of palmingis not difficult when the egg has been made light, by blowing out the inside; the small end fits nicely between the two fleshy portions of the hand.
The use of the extra egg end is not absolutely necessary, for the palming can begin with the first egg, the one originally in the mouth being kept there till the last, when it may be allowed to fall out into the performer's outstretched palms.
The usual expedient of palming some article and introducing it into the hat directly it is taken into the hand will have to be resorted to, and the article should be of a startling nature.
The best method for palming a ring is to hold it between two fingers at the roots.
The hands are shown absolutely empty, fingers wide apart, no palming being employed.
Meanwhile, lay down the plate and handkerchief on the table, at the same time palming small feke containing white silk handkerchief in left hand.
Hold, hold, father, you go beyond your commission; palming is always held foul play amongst gamesters.
To render the idea of palming an apparent impossibility, take up the candle in your right hand.
If you have taken proper care in palmingyour coins, the audience, as well as the one holding the money, will be greatly amazed by the trick.
If two boys have learned the art of palming well, they may assist each other, and, if at all ingenious, invent a variety of tricks for an evening’s amusement.
While all eyes follow the ball in its upward flight you lower the left hand and take the white ball from the profonde, palming it.
When the left hand is underneath, seem to close it over the ball, really palming it in the right hand.
You now take the coins from the glass and appear to place them in the left hand, really palming them in the right, which forthwith drops them into a little box containing sawdust placed on the servante.
Saying this, you appear to throw the coin into the left hand, really palming it, and showing your own, which every one takes to be the original borrowed one.
Saying this, reverse the tube, palming off the cup while doing so; and while holding the tube in the same hand, to hide the palm, fit on the cap.
As you say this you appear to place the ball in the left hand, really opening the case to represent two balls, and palming the solid one in the right hand.
In this form of the trick the ball is caused to change by palming on, or off, as occasion may require, half shells of different colors.
To execute the change you place the red ball in the fingers of the left hand, and then stroke it with the palm of the right; palming the red ball and leaving in place of it the white one.
You now seem to place the ball in the left hand, really palming it; then bring the left hand down with apparent force on the top of the head, showing the ball between the teeth.
Affect to place the handkerchief in the left hand, really palming it in the right, and take your wand from under the arm in the same hand.
Take a coin in the right hand and make believe to place it in the left, really palming it.
Palming Coin] As soon as you can do this with the hand at rest, practise the same movement with the right hand in motion toward the left, as if you really intended to place the coin in that hand.
On receiving back the zinc disc in the right hand, you forthwith seem to place it in the left hand, really palming it and showing its prototype.
Saying which, you apparently place the ball in the left hand, reallypalming it as before, and dropping the ball out of the case under the cover of the right hand.
Apparently transfer the ball from the right hand to the left, really palming it.
What could they gain, in any light that could be then presented to their minds, by palming such a deception upon the world?
We are not aware that there ever were three, or four, or five impostors who originated an imposition, and succeeded in palming it upon the world as a message from God.
And I took a penny from my pocket, and palming it from one hand to the other I made it disappear before his eyes.
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