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* ''Jack Goes To Town'' in [[Scarne on Card Tricks]] by [[John Scarne]] (1950).  
 
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*''Treasure Trail'', and is a tale of adventurers hunting for diamonds.It doesn't quite use the entire deck (just 32 cards). John Fisher's Magic Book (1968)  
 
*''Treasure Trail'', and is a tale of adventurers hunting for diamonds.It doesn't quite use the entire deck (just 32 cards). John Fisher's Magic Book (1968)  

Revision as of 21:08, 16 March 2009

Soldier's Prayer Book is a classic plot on card magic in which the cards are used to tell a story.

The original patter story related the various characteristics of a deck of playing cards to both God and the calendar by a soldier in the field to justify carrying a deck of cards with him.

It was published in London hundreds of years ago but was revived in 1937 by Hugard as "The Perpetual Almanac or Gentleman Soldier's Prayer Book".

It has involved into telling other stories from a pre-arranged sequence of cards with one of the most popular being "Sam the Bellhop" by Bill Malone.

Some story effects use the complete deck, while others use just part.

Versions

  • The Adventures of Diamond Jack - Herman L. Weber (ad April 1926 in The Sphinx)
  • The Adventures of Diamond Jack (original version) - Namreh - Reprint in Encyclopedia of Card Tricks (1937) (Hugard)
  • A Story and A Deck of Cards in Genii 1937 April, Vol. 1, No. 8, p. 6, by Robert Nellar (1937)
  • Jack Hart in the Army in Tops Vol. 5, No. 4, p. 32, by Monte Harris (1940)
  • Treasure Trail, and is a tale of adventurers hunting for diamonds.It doesn't quite use the entire deck (just 32 cards). John Fisher's Magic Book (1968)
  • The Fleeting Queen - Murry A. Sumner - Linking Ring, Sept. 1988
  • Dental Surgery in IBM convention note Little Rock from 1999 by Doc Dixon.
  • After Hours in Constant Fooling, Vol. 2 by David Regal (2002)
  • Juan Tamariz has two story-tricks in his Mnemonica (p.189) (2004) titled as "First story" and "Second story". Both use only half of the deck.
  • Hopping Henry - Tim Sutton, The Magic Circular, January 2009, p. 8-9.
  • A Fish Story in New Tops Vol. 4, No. 12, p. 48, by Herb Runge.
  • Saga of Sam the Bellhop by Frank Everhart.
  • Sermon with a Deck of Cards in Linking Ring, Vol. 28, No. 10, p. 72 by Roy Wallace.
  • Why Dan McGrew Was Shot by Frank Lane.
  • Apologies to Dickens by Ron Giesecke.
  • Joe the Bartender by Ed Watkins.
  • Sam the Call Girl by Whiskey Fletcher.
  • Shawn Farquhar performs an ambitious card routine to Sting's song Shape of my Heart, displaying cards to the appropriate words in the song.
  • Diamonds on the Islands - unknown - Doesn't use full deck
  • Mark Phillips does one with giant cards based on visiting the department of motor vehicles

References

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