The Card In The Egg

Take a card, the same as your long card, and, rolling it up very

close, put it in an egg, by making a hole as small as possible, and

which you are to fill up carefully with white wax. You then offer the

long card to be drawn, and when it is replaced in the pack, you

shuffle the cards several times, giving the egg to the person who drew

the card, and while he is breaking it, you privately withdraw the long

card, that it may appear, upon examining the cards, to have gone from

the pack into the egg. This may be rendered more surprising by having

several eggs, in each of which is placed a card of the same sort, and

then giving the person the liberty to choose which egg he thinks fit.



This deception may be still further diversified, by having, as most

public performers have, a confederate, who is previously to know the

egg in which the card is placed; for you may then break the other

eggs, and show that the only one that contains a card is that in which

you directed it to be.