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 Frank W. Thomas uses the idea as one component of a book test methodology in his "Confessions of a Mind Reader" series in Ellis Stanyon's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16617/Stanyon+s+Magic+Vol+02+No+10/4|Magic]]//, Vol. 2 No. 10, July 1902, p. 76. Two more tests, framed as predictions, are given by David P. Abbott in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12730/House+of+Mystery+The+Magic+Science+of+David+P+Abbott+Volume+One+Behind+the+Scenes/131|Behind the Scenes with the Mediums]]//, 1907 p. 160. Both involve number switches (one being on the flyleaf of a book). Frank W. Thomas uses the idea as one component of a book test methodology in his "Confessions of a Mind Reader" series in Ellis Stanyon's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16617/Stanyon+s+Magic+Vol+02+No+10/4|Magic]]//, Vol. 2 No. 10, July 1902, p. 76. Two more tests, framed as predictions, are given by David P. Abbott in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12730/House+of+Mystery+The+Magic+Science+of+David+P+Abbott+Volume+One+Behind+the+Scenes/131|Behind the Scenes with the Mediums]]//, 1907 p. 160. Both involve number switches (one being on the flyleaf of a book).
  
-Another early example is "A Good Slate Trick" in Elbiquet's //A Text Book of Magic//, 1913, in which the slate plays a part in producing the total. The selected numbers are written on a sheet of paper that is switched in a flap card-box before being added.+Another early example is "A Good Slate Trick" in Elbiquet's //A Text Book of Magic//, 1913, p. 133, in which the slate plays a part in producing the total. The selected numbers are written on a sheet of paper that is switched in a flap card-box before being added.
  
 In //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10706/Magician+Monthly+Vol+11/61|The Magician Monthly]]//, Vol. 11 No. 3, Feb. 1915, p. 49, there appears "Tip for the 'Sum Trick'" (presumably by Will Goldston) with a switching method involving a pack of postcards. The opening sentence leads with, "In working any kind of sum trick..." which clearly suggests that it is, by then, an established and well-known plot. This is amply underscored in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10706/Magician+Monthly+Vol+11/158|The Magician Monthly]]//, Vol. 11 No. 4, July 1915, p. 126, wherein H. C. Mole describes "The 'Daily Mail' Trick," a newspaper test that involves a switched-in total as part of its method. On this point, Mole writes: "This requires no description; each performer has his own way of working..." In //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10706/Magician+Monthly+Vol+11/61|The Magician Monthly]]//, Vol. 11 No. 3, Feb. 1915, p. 49, there appears "Tip for the 'Sum Trick'" (presumably by Will Goldston) with a switching method involving a pack of postcards. The opening sentence leads with, "In working any kind of sum trick..." which clearly suggests that it is, by then, an established and well-known plot. This is amply underscored in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10706/Magician+Monthly+Vol+11/158|The Magician Monthly]]//, Vol. 11 No. 4, July 1915, p. 126, wherein H. C. Mole describes "The 'Daily Mail' Trick," a newspaper test that involves a switched-in total as part of its method. On this point, Mole writes: "This requires no description; each performer has his own way of working..."

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