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.140 Fig.1.STEP II Borrow a bill from the audience and place it directly onto the finger-palmed sugar packet so that the left end of the bill goes into the crotch of your leftthumb.STEP III Grip the packet and the bill with your right thumb from belowagainst the packet, and your right first finger on top of the bill.Lift the bill alongwith the packet concealed beneath it so that the bill faces the audience.The packetshould now be near the upper left corner of the bill with the folded part of thepacket on top facing toward you.STEP IV Grasp the left end of the bill, along with the sugar packet, with yourleft fingers.Fold the bill in half by placing the back of your right thumb againstthe outer right side of the bill, then using your thumb to push that end of the billover onto the left side of the bill so that the folded right side of the bill ends upheld between your right thumb and finger.Fig.2 & 3.141 The sugar packet and your left thumb are now sandwiched inside the folded bill.Hold the sugar packet in position with pressure from your right thumb and fingerswhile your left thumb moves out of the bill by sliding up.On the way up yourthumb slides up under the sugar packet's fold automatically unfolding it.Transfer the bill covered sugar to your left hand by grasping the bill's left endstogether between your left thumb and fingers.Left finger pressure holds the sugarpacket in place.STEP V Use your right fingers to fold the bottom half inch of the bill up on theaudience side of the bill to seal off the bill's bottom edge.Fig.4.STEP VI Borrow a nickel or a quarter from a spectator and have her rememberthe coin's date before handing it to you.While this action is taking place, tilt the billto the left, to cause some of the sugar to slide to the left of the packet leaving aspace at the right of the packet for the coin.142 STEP VII Take the coin with your right fingers and place it into the bill,directly into the sugar packet through its slit in the space left by the shiftedsugar.STEP VIII Transfer the bill to your right hand by clipping the right side of thebill's bottom flap between your first and second finger.The right thumb goes tothe back of the bill so that the packet is held secure through the bill between theright thumb and first finger.STEP IX Your left hand takes seven or eight sugar packets out from theircontainer and drops them on the table to your left.Direct a spectator to pick upone of the packets and place it on the palm of your left hand.STEP X Adjust the left hand sugar packet with your left fingers so that one ofthe packet's ends can be thumb clipped.STEP XI Make the following speech if you're so inclined: "To make sleight-of-hand improbable I've insulated the coin in a dollar bill.The sugar is alreadyprotected by the package around it.At this point it would be difficult to get to thecoin and impossible to get to the sugar.But if it were possible to secretly palmthousands of individual grains of sugar." Then close your left hand over itspacket.STEP XII Tilt the bill and pour out the sugar while pressure from yourright thumb and first finger keeps the coin inside.A slight rubbing motion of theright thumb and first finger will help the sugar pour.Do not attempt to get all of the sugar to pour out of the packet.The audienceonly has to see one good shot of the sugar pouring out of the bill to get the effect.Fig.5.Fig.5.143 STEP XIII Open your left hand to show a flash of its packet, then perform aHan Ping Chen maneuverbythumb clipping the left end of the packet as you turnyour left hand down to apparently place its packet onto the table.As your lefthand turns palm down, relax the pressure from your right thumb and first fingerso that the bill is held only by the fold clipped between your right first and secondfinger.Fig.6 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]