Several Different Cards Being Fixed On By Different Persons To Name

that on which each Person fixed.



There must be as many different cards shown to each person, as there

are cards to choose; so that, if there are three persons, you must

show three cards to each person, telling the first to retain one in

his memory. You then lay those three cards down, and show three others

to the second person, and three others to the third. Next take up the

first person's cards, and lay hem down separately, one by one, with

their faces upwards; place the second person's cards over the first,

and the third over the second's, so that there will be one card in

each parcel belonging to each person. You then ask each of them in

which parcel his card is, and by the answer you immediately know which

card it is; for the first person's will always be the first, the

second person's the second, and the third person's the third in that

parcel where each says his card is.



This amusement may be performed with a single person, by letting him

fix on three, four, or more cards. In this case you must show him as

many parcels as he is to choose cards, and every parcel must consist

of that number, out of which he is to fix on one; and you then proceed

as before, he telling you the parcel that contains each of his cards.