NAPOLEON'S CARD METHODS
No.
3.
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Dealing the Cards by Fifteens
After having well shuffled and cut the cards, or, as we
have before said, had them cut, deal them out in two packs,
Desire the person con-
containing sixteen cards in each.
you to choose one of them lay aside the first card,
to form "the Surprise"; turn up the other fifteen, and
range them in a half-circle before you, going from left to
right, placing them in the order in which they come to
hand, and taking care to remark whether the one representing the person for whom you are acting is among them.
If not, the cards must be all gathered up, shuffled, cut, and
dealt as before, and this must be repeated until the missing
card makes its appearance in the pack chosen by the
Now proceed to explain them
person it represents.
first, by interpreting the meaning of any pairs, triplets, or
then by counting them in sevens,
quartettes among them
going from right to left, and beginning with the card
and lastly, by
representing the person consulting you
taking the cards at either extremity of the line and pairing
them.
This being done, gather up the fifteen cards,
shuffle, cut, and deal them so as to form three packs of
five cards each. From each of these three packs withdraw
the topmost card, and place them on the one laid aside to
form " the Surprise," thus forming four packs of four cards
sulting
;
;
;
each.
whom
you are acting to choose one
Desire the person for
of these packs " for herself," or " himself," as the case may
be.
from
Turn
it
up,
and spread out the foiu cards
left to right,
signification.
on your
left
it
contains,
explaining their individual and relative
Next proceed in like manner with the pack
then
hand, which will be " for the house "
the third one, " for those
lastly, " the Surprise."
;
who do
not expect
it
"
;
and