Card Tricks That Are Easy To Learn & Easy To Do

Card Tricks That Are Easy To Learn & Easy To Do by W.F. (Rufus) Steele - ebook

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CONTENTS:

The Riffle Trick

Frank Lane's Three Pellet Trick

Pearce's Triple Card Mystery

The Master Card Location

The Lady and Man Card Prediction

Simple Addiction

A Brain Teaser

Mephisto's Message

Improved Guesser

Sequel

A Prediction Effect

My Personal Stack

A Coincidence

The Four-Ace Merry Mix Up

The Piano Trick

The Joker's Own Deception

The Marvelous Prediction

Can you Do it?

Fortune Telling Trick

The Devil's Tickets

Pellet Trick

The Joker Trick

Card Spelling Deluxe

Knock-Out Spelling Trick

Sleeve Fooling Trick

Kater's Improved Spelling Trick

Sympathy Connection

Dual Attraction

How many Cards Did I Take?

Cecil's Mind Reading

Watch Locator

"Follow Me" Card Trick

The Vernon Five-Card Mental Force

Figures Can't Lie

Place the Pack in Back of You

Son John Story

The Three Heaps

Jordan's Spelling Mystery

Thought Foretold

Getting the Spectators Number

Jack-Jack-Jack

Number Trick

Just a Teaser

What Card Am I Thinking Of?

Letter "P" Trick

The Whispering Queen

You Can't Miss

A Peculiar Turn Around

Si Stebbins' Master System

Tricks with a pack of cards afford one of the easiest and most interesting forms of entertainment in existence. They are amazing and mysterious to those who witness them, yet they are within the ability of everyone.

The idea that long practice and exceptional skill are necessary in the performance of card tricks is erroneous. Some of the cleverest and most bewildering tricks are made possible by the use of subtle principles and unique methods that are easily learned, yet which are capable of deceiving 

the keenest and most intelligent spectator.

 Such are the methods explained in this booklet. These tricks have been 

devised by experienced performers of card tricks - men who understand the psychology of deception and who know that a clever, well-developed principle can be used to create an amazing mystery.

Each trick depends upon a special system, simplified to make it effective 

in actual practice. The instructions are clear and easily understood. By 

following them carefully and performing each trick in a convincing manner, 

the reader can quickly gain an enviable reputation as a master of card magic.

This booklet is not a picture book that can be looked through in half an 

hour—it must be carefully read to be properly understood.

 Anyone who studies and masters the different card tricks in this little 

book need never be at a loss to do his bit when called upon. You will 

astonish your friends and add greatly to the gaiety of the gathering.

Remember that a good trick is a jewel and should be guarded as such 

against the depredations of the members of your audience who are ever 

ready to steal its luster.

The value of your trick lies in its degree of mystification, 

which is lessened, not augmented, by repetition. “Do that again!” cries your audience as a result of that mystification, and this is just what you should not do, at least during that performance. You have been striving to put them in just that condition—leave them there. This book affords 

enough material for your part of the evening’s entertainment without repeating any individual trick and thus giving your audience a chance to find out how it is done. By doing a trick only once an evening, your audience gives you credit for skill which you do not possess and your glory is the greater.

The following effects have proven worth-while in actual practice and 

conform to the above qualifications. Some of the tricks are original with the 

author; but for the most part they are adaptations of old ideas or new 

applications of the old principles.

In presenting this book to you we have not only given complete instructions for the actual doing of the trick, but have included “patter ideas,” which have been used before many audiences throughout the country.

About the Author:

W.F. (Rufus) Steele (born 1881- died 1955 at age 74) 

Rufus was his nickname. His real name was William Francis Steele.

He started out as a professional gambler and became a well known Card Expert. 

He was born in Janesville, Wisconsin. 

He was a pro gambler, soldier (WW I), engineer, journalist, hotel clerk. 

Inspired and learned magic in 1900 by private demo from Dr J.W. Elliott. 

He was an Amateur Magician. Voted into the New York "Inner Circle" by 1940. 

He died in Chicago.

He was the author of 6 Magic Books.

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