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and convey your false money into the cap, so that the company, may not see you put it in, then with your cap over the die, so with your right hand take up the true money, and put it into the left under the table, saying, ‘Vade, begone, I command the die to be gone, and the money to come in the place;' so take up the cap, and the die is gone, and the money is come, covering the money again with the cap, so taking the true money in your right hand, and knocking under the table, making a jingling as though the money was coming through the table, then flinging them on the table, say, ‘There is the money,’ and with your right hand take off the cap, saying, ‘And there is the die;' so convey the false money into your lap, and there is the cap likewise.—This is an ingenious feat if well handled, here make the figure of a die, and the fashion of seven half-pence, and a cap to cover them.


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