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CHAPTER III. The enlevage, or abstraction of a card 172 CHAPTER IV. The card replaced 175 CHAPTER V. The glance 176 CHAPTER VI. The substituted pack—The box in the sleeve 177 CHAPTER VII. False shuffles—The arranged shuffle—The partial shuffle—The fan—The dove-tail 183 CHAPTER VIII. DOCTORED CARDS. Cartes biseautées—Tinted cards—Sticky or slippery cards—Slanting cards—Pricked cards—Cards with indented edges—Wavy cards—Chequered cards—Marked cards 189 CHAPTER IX. The chaplet, or rosary 205 CHAPTER X. The ring for marking 209 CHAPTER XI. The reflecting snuff-box 211 CHAPTER XII. APPLICATION OF THE PRECEDING PRINCIPLES. Arrangement of the pack—Coups de piquet—How to repique and capot an adversary—How to repique and capot an adversary, although he has shuffled the cards—Abstraction and substitution of cards—Coup d'écarté—Jeu de règle—Lansquenet—Baccarat—Vingt-et-un, &c. &c. 213 CHAPTER XIII. ENTERTAINING TRICKS. In Piquet—Écarté—Baccarat—Impériale—Whist—Bouillotte—Bézigue—&c., &c. 232 CHAPTER XIV. MINOR CHEATS OF MEN OF THE WORLD. Ruses and frauds allowable by custom in society 259

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THE
SHARPER DETECTED AND EXPOSED.

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AN ANECDOTE BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION.
A DANGEROUS PROFESSOR.

Whatever, dear reader, may be the value you attach to the knowledge of the knaveries I am about to reveal to you, you will assuredly never pay so dearly for them as I have.

You will easily understand, that the tricks and impostures exposed in this work, are not the inventions of my own brain. I have collected them, one by one, from sharpers, or have been obliged to find them out as best I could.

My researches have been both difficult and dangerous. Sharpers do not willingly part with the arts on which they depend for their livelihood; and, moreover, you are driven, by your investigations, into a society which may often expose you to serious personal risk.

When I was but a novice in the art of legerdemain, I often went, as I have mentioned in my "Confessions," to the house of a manufacturer of articles used for jugglery, named Père Roujol, hoping to meet there some lover of magic, or professor of the art of legerdemain.

The kind Père Roujol had taken a great fancy to me; he knew my passion for what he termed "natural philosophy rendered amusing," and took pleasure in giving me these opportunities of obtaining useful hints on the subject.

He spoke to me one day, of a man named Elias Hausheer, whom he had met at a