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LET any one read carefully Dr. Carpenter's account of the card trick exhibited to him by Mr. Bishop; let him suppose that Mr. Bishop had two packs of cards, the one an ordinary pack for exhibition to the company, and the other a pack containing fifty-two cards, all alike (the backs of both packs being of the same pattern). Let Mr. Bishop now perform the trick with cards from the latter pack, and his success can be readily explained. But grant that Mr. Bishop had only one pack of ordinary cards: even then it is possible that the explanation of the trick is not hard to find.
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WHYTE, T. Re W. I. Bishop. Nature 24, 211–212 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024211d0
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