Effect: You riffle the deck and wait tell the spectator tells you to stop you stop and take away the upper portion. Then the pick the card up look at it then put it back. You square up the deck and riffle the deck to your ear. Then the deck tells you... Read more of Whispering Deck at Card Trick.ca

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Thomson's Indolence

The author of the Seasons and the Castle of Indolence, paid homage
in the latter admirable poem to the master-passion or habit of his own
easy nature. Thomson was so excessively lazy, that he is recorded to
have been seen standing at a peach-tree, with both his hands in his
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