trick.

4. How to name every card in a pack successively turned up by a second
party, and win every trick at a hand of Whist.

This is, perhaps, the most astonishing of all tricks with cards.
Although it may be true that whatever puzzle one man invents, some other
man may unravel, as before observed, I am decidedly of opinion that this
trick defies detection. At the first blush it seems very difficult to
learn; but it is simplicity itself in explanation.

Begin by laying out the cards in four rows according to the suits, all
of a suit in a row side by side.

The cards must now be arranged for the trick. Take up the six in the top
or bottom row, then the two in the next row, the ten in the third, and
the nine in the fourth, placing them one upon the other in the left
hand. Then begin again with the row from which you took the six, and
take up the three. From the next row take the king. These numbers will
be easily remembered with a little practice, amounting altogether to 30,
made up thus--6 and 2 are 8, 8 and 10 are 18, 18 and 9 are 27, 27 and 3
are 30--KING.

By repeating this addition a few times, it will be fixed in the memory.

Proceed by next beginning with the row next to the one from which you
took the last card or the king, and take the eight; from the next row
take the four; from the next the ace; from the next the knave. These
cards make up 13. Therefore say, 8 and 4 are 12 and 1 are 13--knave.

From the next row to that whence you took the knave, take the seven;
from the next row take the five; from the next the queen. These cards
make up 12. Thus, 7 and 5 are 12--queen.

It thus appears that you have taken up thirteen cards consisting of the
four suits, successively taken and being arranged as follows:--6, 2, 10,
9, 3, king; 8, 4, 1, knave; 7, 5, queen.

Proceed in like manner with the remainder of the cards, beginning with
the row next to that from which you took the queen, and take the six,
then from the next row the two, and so on as before, making up another
batch of 13 cards.

Repeat the process for a third batch, and finish with the remainder for
the fourth--always remembering to take the card from the next row in
succession continually; in other words, only one card must be taken from
each row at a time.

When the cards are thus arranged, request a party to cut them. This is
only pretence; for you must take care dexterously to replace the cut
just as it was before. Let them be cut again,