Kimber). VIII. London Bridge is broken down, Gran says the little D, London Bridge is broken down, Fair la-dy. Build it up with lime and stone, Gran says the little D, Build it up with lime and stone, Fair la-dy. [Then follow verses beginning with the following lines--] Lime and stone would waste away. Build it up with penny loaves. Penny loaves would be eaten away. Build it up with silver and gold. Silver and gold would be stolen away. Get a man to watch all night.
_=Widows.=_ Another variation is to deal five cards in the centre of the table, face downward, the dealer giving the cards to the widow just before helping himself in each round. Any player in his proper turn to bid may take the widow, and from the total of ten cards so obtained select five on which he must bid nap, discarding the others face downward. _=Peep Nap.=_ In this variety of the pool game one card only is dealt to the widow, usually on the first round. Each player in turn, before bidding or passing, has the privilege of taking a private peep at this down card, on paying one counter to the pool. The card is left on the table until the highest bidder is known, and he then takes it into his hand, whether he has paid to peep at it or not. He must then discard to reduce his hand to five cards. If a player bids nap it usually pays those following him to have a peep at the down card in case the bidder should retain it in his hand. SPOIL FIVE.
_=The Laws=_ of Baccara are very long and complicated. As no official code exists, and as each gambling club makes its own house rules, it is not necessary to give them here, the directions contained in the foregoing description being sufficient for any honest game. _=Text Books.=_ The following will be found useful:-- Théorie Mathematique du Baccara, by Dormoy. Baccara Experimental, by Billard. Traité Théorique et Pratique Baccara, by Laun. _Westminster Papers_, Vols. X. and XI. BLIND HOOKEY.
His partner, Simonetti, was something else, but somehow I wasn t looking forward to meeting him any more than I was to seeing Rose again. I guess it s the filth within these croupier types that makes them surround themselves with the aseptic immaculacy of iridium and glass. Their office was in a penthouse perched on the slanting roof shakes of the casino. It was big as a squash court, and as high and as square. Every wall was glass. It couldn t have been in greater contrast to the contrived hominess of the casino if they d thought about it for a year. Then, for the last twist, the furnishings were straight out of the old Southwest--Navajo rugs, heavy, Spanish oak desks, and a pair of matching couches or divans of whole steer leather stretched over oak frames. * * * * * Peno Rose came quickly toward me the moment Fowler Smythe showed me into the office, spurs jingling. Hey! There he is! The boy they had to rule off the track! How s a boy, Lefty? Long time no see. He had his hand stuck way out ahead of him.
Philosopher, a card sharp. Piano Hands, hands which run along smoothly at Whist, and yield no opportunities for loss or gain. Piking, making small bets all over the layout at Faro. Playboy, the Jack of trumps at Spoil Five. Plain Suits, those which are not trumps. Point, F., the suit containing the greatest number of pips. Pone, the player on the dealer’s right, who cuts the cards. Ponte, F., one who plays against the banker.
It is otherwise played in Angus. Three holes are made at equal distances. He who can first strike his bowl into each of these holes thrice in succession wins the game (Jamieson). It is alluded to in _The Life of a Scotch Rogue_, 1722, p. 7. See Bun-hole. Carrick Old name for Shinty in Fife.--Jamieson. Carry my Lady to London I. Give me a pin to stick in my thumb To carry my lady to London.
The latter should be selected, because two leads must establish it. In establishing a long suit it is very important to note the fall of the missing cards in the sequences. In the first of the two combinations just given, the declarer should be as careful to watch for the fall of the 8 and 6 as for the A Q and 10. _=Leading.=_ It is quite unnecessary to follow any system of leads, further than to distinguish between the combinations from which high or low cards are led. But it is important to remember that although a high-card combination may be divided, it should be played as if in one hand. For instance: The declarer holds Q J x x x of a suit; Dummy having A x x. By leading Q or J, Dummy is enabled to finesse, as if he held A Q J. The declarer holds K J x x x; Dummy having Q x x. The play is to force the Ace, as if the combination of K Q J x x were in one hand.
_=With Three Players.=_ Vivant having selected his seat and cards, the adversaries may select their seats. It is usual for the strongest adversary to sit Right. _=With Four Players=_, we can best describe the arrangement by numbering them 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively, the lowest number, 1, having cut the lowest card, and the others having the right to play Vivant in their numerical order. The initial arrangement would be as follows:-- [Illustration: 4 4 +---------+ +---------+ | Mort. | | Mort. | 2 | | 3 or this:-- 3 | | 2 | Vivant. | | Vivant. | +---------+ +---------+ 1 1 ] For the three succeeding games the arrangement would be:-- [Illustration: 1 2 3 +---------+ +---------+ +---------+ | Mort. | | Mort.
The principle underlying the jeux de règle is the probable distribution of the cards in the trump suit, and the fact that the odds are always against the dealer’s holding two or more. There are thirty-two cards in the Écarté pack, of which eight are trumps, and one of these is always turned up. The turn-up and the player’s hand give us six cards which are known, and leave twenty-six unknown. Of these unknown cards the dealer holds five, and he may get these five in 65,780 different ways. The theory of the jeux de règle is that there are only a certain number of those ways which will give him two or more trumps. If the player holds one trump, the odds against the dealer’s holding two or more are 44,574 to 21,206; or a little more than 2 to 1. If the player holds two trumps, the odds against the dealer’s holding two or more are 50,274 to 15,506; or more than 3 to 1. It is therefore evident that any hand which is certain to win three tricks if the dealer has not two trumps, has odds of two to one in its favour, and all such hands are called jeux de règle. The natural inference from this is that such hands should always be played without proposing, unless they contain the King of trumps. The exception in case of holding the King is made because there is no danger of the dealer’s getting the King, no matter how many cards he draws, and if the player’s cards are not strong enough to make it probable that he can win the vole, it is better for him to ask for cards, in hope of improving his chances.
Sweeting). (_b_) One girl is chosen to act as Mother, the rest of the players pretend to be her children, and stand in front of her, not in a line, but in a group. One of them, very frequently all the children ask her the first question, and the Mother answers. When she gives permission for the children to go out they all curtsey three times, and run off and pretend to play. They then return, and the rest of the dialogue is said, the Mother asking the questions and the children replying. At the end of the dialogue the Mother chases and catches them, one after the other, pretending to beat and punish them. In the Northants and Hurstmonceux games there appears to be no chasing. In the London version (Miss Dendy) only two children are mentioned as playing. When the Mother is chasing the girl she keeps asking, Where s my share of the silver penny? to which the girl replies, You may have the nut-shells. In the Cornish version, when the Mother has caught one of the children, she beats her and puts her hands round the child s throat as if she were going to hang her.
=_ No player can exact a penalty for his own error, so that if an adversary of the dealer exposes one of his own cards he cannot claim a misdeal, but the dealer’s side may. There should be no penalty for a player’s having exposed a card unless he can derive some benefit from the exposure, such as from his partner’s having seen it. If there is no partner, there should be no penalty, because the player injures himself only. All exposed cards must be left on the table, and may be called upon by the adversaries to be led or played. The same principles apply to _=Leading out of Turn=_. If the player in error has no partner, or his partner is a dummy, and the lead is taken back, no harm is done except to the player himself, and there should be no penalty. If the adversaries fail to observe that the lead was irregular, they are equally at fault with the player, who must be assumed to have erred unintentionally. In games in which a lead out of turn conveys information to a partner, the usual penalty is to call a suit. If a player is led into error through a previous error on the part of an adversary, he should not suffer any penalty for it, but may take back his card. This is particularly true of following suit to erroneous leads, or playing after a revoke which is afterward amended.
Whilst the boys are sliding they say Bend-leather, bend-leather, puff, puff, puff. --Addy s _Sheffield Glossary_. Betsy Bungay [Music] Hi, Betsy Bungay, all day on Sunday; You re the lock and I m the key, All day on Monday. --Kent (J. P. Emslie). Two children cross their hands in the fashion known as a sedan chair. A third child sits on their hands. The two sing the first line. One of them sings, You re the lock, the other sings, and I m the key, and as they sang the words they unclasped their hands and dropped their companion on the ground.
43, 44. To make Barley bread (in other districts, Cockley bread ) this rhyme is used in West Cornwall:-- Mother has called, mother has said, Make haste home, and make barley bread. Up with your heels, down with your head, That is the way to make barley bread. --_Folk-lore Journal_, v. 58. The Westmoreland version is given by Ellis in his edition of Brand as follows:-- My grandy s seeke, And like to dee, And I ll make her Some cockelty bread, cockelty bread, And I ll make her Some cockelty bread. The term Cockelty is still heard among our children at play. One of them squats on its haunches with the hands joined beneath the thighs, and being lifted by a couple of others who have hold by the bowed arms, it is swung backwards and forwards and bumped on the ground or against the wall, while continuing the words, This is the way we make cockelty bread. --Robinson s _Whitby Glossary_, p. 40.
If any one play two cards to the same trick, or mix his trump, or other card, with a trick to which it does not properly belong, and the mistake be not discovered until the hand is played out, he is answerable for all consequent revokes he may have made. If, during the play of the hand, the error be detected, the tricks may be counted face downward, in order to ascertain whether there be among them a card too many; should this be the case, they may be searched, and the card restored; the player is, however, liable for all revokes which he may have meanwhile made. THE REVOKE. 71. Is when a player, holding one or more cards of the suit led, plays a card of a different suit. 72. The penalty for a revoke-- I. Is at the option of the adversaries, who at the end of the hand may either take three tricks from the revoking player or deduct three points from his score, or add three to their own score; II. Can be claimed for as many revokes as occur during the hand; III. Is applicable only to the score of the game in which it occurs; IV.
I have found this to be awkward, because the player who is gathering and shuffling the cards of one pack is called upon to cut the other. For this reason I recommend that whichever adversary is the pone for the deal in hands should allow his partner to gather and shuffle the still pack. When either adversary deals, his partner will, of course, gather and shuffle the still pack. The general rules with regard to irregularities in the deal are the same as at whist, with the following exceptions:-- A misdeal does not lose the deal unless the opponents so elect; they may prefer a new deal by the same dealer. The reason for this is that the deal is a disadvantage, especially for Mort. If Vivant or Mort offers the pack to one adversary to cut, and then deals as if the other had cut, it is a misdeal; and it is not admissible to shift the packets in order to remedy matters. It might be imagined that a card exposed in dealing, if dealt to Mort, would make no difference, as all his cards will presently be exposed. But the laws give the opponents of the dealer the option of either allowing the deal to stand, or having a new deal, or calling it a misdeal. According to the French laws, if there is any discussion in progress with regard to the previous hand or play, the dealer may lay aside the trump card, face down, until the discussion is finished. If this law prevailed in America, I think the trump would very seldom be turned immediately.
[Illustration: MANHATTAN WHIST CLUB Table No. 31 May 1896 1. Chinery 3. Bullock 2. Lewis 4. Izard +-----+------+--------+------+-----+------+--------+ | E-W | Gain | Part’s | HAND | N-S | Gain | Part’s | +-----+------+--------+------+-----+------+--------+ | 8 | | | 1 | 10 | 2 | | +-----+------+--------+ +-----+------+--------+ | 4 | | 1 & 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 & 4 | +-----+------+--------+ +-----+------+--------+ | 6 | 1 | -4 | 3 | 5 | | +4 | +-----+------+--------+ +-----+------+--------+ | 3 | | | 4 | 5 | 2 | | +-----+======+========+ +-----+======+========+ | 7 | | | 5 | 8 | 1 | | +-----+------+--------+ +-----+------+--------+ | 6 | 2 | 1 & 3 | 6 | 4 | | 2 & 4 | +-----+------+--------+ +-----+------+--------+ | 3 | | +1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | -1 | +-----+------+--------+ +-----+------+--------+ | 10 | 1 | | 8 | 9 | | | +-----+======+========+ +-----+======+========+ | 5 | | | 9 | 6 | 1 | | +-----+------+--------+ +-----+------+--------+ | 9 | | 1 & 4 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 2 & 3 | +-----+------+--------+ +-----+------+--------+ | 10 | 2 | -1 | 11 | 8 | | +1 | +-----+------+--------+ +-----+------+--------+ | 2 | | | 12 | 3 | 1 | | +----------+----------+---------+----------+-------+ | Summary | 1 to 4 | 5 to 8 | 9 to 12 | Total | +----------+----------+---------+----------+-------+ | No 1 | -4 | +1 | -1 | -4 | | +----------+---------+----------+-------+ | 2 | -4 | -1 | +1 | -4 | | +----------+---------+----------+-------+ | 3 | +4 | +1 | +1 | +6 | | +----------+---------+----------+-------+ | 4 | +4 | -1 | -1 | +2 | +----------+----------+---------+----------+-------+ ] It must be remembered that the hands which are here scored N & S, in the 5th column, were E & W when originally dealt; so that the 1st and 5th columns are really the same hands. The score-card should be folded down the middle during the overplay, so that the original scores cannot be seen. It is even better to use a new card. _=Foster’s System=_ of playing two pairs at one table, which was used at all the matches for the Utica Trophy, in which one pair from a club challenged the pair that held the trophy for another club, consisted in having an umpire to transpose the suits between the original and the overplay of the deals. The trays containing the hands were sent in to the umpire’s room, and he had an extra pack of cards, from which he duplicated each hand of thirteen cards as he took it out of the pocket to which it belonged, but changed the suits, making clubs trumps instead of hearts, etc.
XII. See-saw, a bucket of water, To wash my lady s garter. One in a rush, and two in a bush, To see a fine lady pop under a bush. --Anderby, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire near the Trent (Miss Peacock). XIII. One we go rush, Two we go push; Lady come under the corner bush. --Shepscombe, Gloucestershire (Miss Mendham). XIV. Sift the lady s oaten meal, sift it into flour, Put it in a chest of drawers and let it lie an hour. One of my rush, Two of my rush, Please, young lady, come under my bush.
CARDS PLAYED IN ERROR. 80. Should the fourth hand, not being dummy or declarer, play before the second, the latter may be required to play his highest or lowest card of the suit led, or to win or lose the trick. In such case, if the second hand be void of the suit led, the declarer in lieu of any other penalty may call upon the second hand to play the highest card of any designated suit. If he name a suit of which the second hand is void, the penalty is paid.[17] 81. If any one, except dummy, omit playing to a trick, and such error be not corrected until he has played to the next, the adversaries or either of them may claim a new deal; should either decide that the deal stand, the surplus card (at the end of the hand) is considered played to the imperfect trick, but does not constitute a revoke therein.[18] 82. When any one, except dummy, plays two or more cards to the same trick and the mistake is not corrected, he is answerable for any consequent revokes he may make. When the error is detected during the play, the tricks may be counted face downward, to see if any contain more than four cards; should this be the case, the trick which contains a surplus card or cards may be examined and such card or cards restored to the original holder.
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Sometimes an extra point is scored for winning the Ten of trumps: but such a count is quite foreign to the game. NATIONAL GAMES. There are certain games of cards which do not seem to belong to any particular family, but stand apart from other games, and have been played since their first invention with only trifling variations, giving rise to no offshoots bearing other names. These are usually the most popular games with the middle and lower classes in the countries in which they are found, and may be considered as distinctly national in character. Games that become popular with the masses always last longer than others, and the rules governing them are much better understood, and more firmly established. In the course of a century the English aristocracy have run the gamut of Quadrille, Ombre, Whist, Écarté, Bézique, Piquet, Rubicon, and Bridge; while the middle classes have stuck steadily to Cribbage for nearly two hundred years. Six of these popular games are strikingly typical of the national character, both in their construction, and in the manner of playing them. These are: Skat in Germany; Cribbage in England; Piquet in France; Conquian in Mexico; Calabrasella in Italy; and Cassino in America. All these are excellent games, and have deservedly survived much more pretentious rivals. With the exception of Skat, little is known of the exact origin of any of these games, although most of them may be traced by their resemblance to more ancient forms.
For instance: A player holding the Nine, and having to play to his adversary’s lead, may win the trick with the turn-up card, leaving the Nine in its place, provided he has won some previous trick. There is no count for dix, as in Bézique and Binocle, and the player is not obliged to exchange unless he wishes to do so. If the Nine is the last card in the stock, it is, of course, too late to exchange it, and the player drawing it must keep it. _=Marriages.=_ If a player holds both King and Queen of any suit, he may count 20 points towards 66 for the marriage, or 40 for royal marriage, by leading either of the marriage cards. It is not necessary for the King or Queen so led to win the trick; but the player declaring a marriage must have the lead, and must have won a trick, or he cannot count it. The pone may declare a marriage on his first lead; but it will not count unless he wins some subsequent trick, and if his adversary gets to 66 before the pone gets a trick, the marriage is lost, and the pone is schwartz. If the 20 or 40 claimed for the marriage is enough to carry the player’s count to 66 or beyond, the marriage need only be shown and claimed, without leading it, and the remaining cards are then abandoned, provided the count is correct. Only one marriage can be shown but not led in this manner. In the ordinary course of play it is not necessary to show both cards of the marriage unless the adversary asks to see them.
(_b_) This game is played with horse chestnuts threaded on a string. Two boys sit face to face astride of a form or a log of timber. If a piece of turf can be procured so much the better. One boy lays his chestnut upon the turf, and the other strikes at it with his chestnut; and they go on striking alternately till one chestnut splits the other. The chestnut which remains unhurt is then conqueror of one. A new chestnut is substituted for the broken one, and the game goes on. Whichever chestnut now proves victorious becomes conqueror of two, and so on, the victorious chestnut adding to its score all the previous winnings. The chestnuts are often artificially hardened by placing them up the chimney or carrying them in a warm pocket; and a chestnut which has become conqueror of a considerable number acquires a value in schoolboys eyes; and I have frequently known them to be sold, or exchanged for other toys (Holland s _Cheshire Glossary_). The game is more usually played by one boy striking his opponent s nut with his own, both boys standing and holding the string in their hands. It is considered bad play to strike the opponent s _string_.
--Mactaggart s _Gallovidian Encyclopædia_. This is a general form of determining sides or beginning a game all over the country. Hecklebirnie A play among children in Aberdeenshire. Thirty or forty children in two rows, joining opposite hands, strike smartly with their hands thus joined on the head or shoulders of their companion as he runs the gauntlet through them. This is called passing through the mires of Hecklebirnie. --Jamieson. The editors of Jamieson append a lengthy note connecting the name of this game with the northern belief that the wicked were condemned to suffer eternal punishment in Hecla, the volcanic mountain in Iceland. See Namers and Guessers. Hen and Chicken Chickery, chickery, cranny crow, I went to the well to wash my toe, When I got back a chicken was dead. This verse is said by the Hen to her Chickens, after which they all go with the Hen to search for the dead Chicken.
And you are young, smug and snotty enough to play the part, he concluded without heat. Still, that s all it might be, just play-acting, with Barney going through the motions of being blind. You could be outside the Lodge, sonny. Any cross-roader who can tip dice the way you were working them can twitch an ear. Let s see some credentials. He scuffed through the sawdust to the bar and took a stack of silver dollars from his apron. He held them, dealerwise, in the palm of his hand, with his fingertips down, so that they were a column surrounded by a fence of fingers. How many? he asked. I shrugged. The whole stack, Smythe, I told him.
| T| _=A Solo.=_ | R| _=A Misère.=_ | I| --------------------------------+ C+------------------------------- A Y B Z | K| A Y B Z +-------+-------+-------+-------+--+-------+-------+-------+------+ | 10♢ | 8♢ | Q♢ | _K♢_ | 1| _K♠_ | 7♠ | J♠ | 10♠ | | 3♢ | 9♢ | _A♢_ | 2♢ | 2| _Q♠_ | 5♠ | 9♠ | 8♠ | | ♡6 | ♡2 | _♡A_ | ♡3 | 3| Q♢ | 5♢ | _A♢_ | J♢ | | ♣8 | ♡4 | ♡Q | _♡K_ | 4| 9♢ | 4♢ | _K♢_ | 10♢ | | ♣9 | _♣A_ | ♣4 | ♣7 | 5| ♡6 | 3♠ | _6♠_ | 8♢ | | _A♠_ | 9♠ | K♠ | 4♠ | 6| ♡7 | 2♠ | _4♠_ | ♣A | | _♣K_ | ♣2 | ♣6 | ♣5 | 7| ♣10 | ♣8 | ♣7 | _♣K_ | | 7♠ | 2♠ | _Q♠_ | 6♠ | 8| ♣9 | ♣6 | 7♢ | _♣Q_ | | 5♢ | ♣3 | ♣Q | _♡8_ | 9| ♣5 | ♣4 | 6♢ | _♣J_ | | 6♢ | 3♠ | _♡5_ | J♢ |10| ♡8 | ♣2 | ♡K | _♣3_ | | 7♢ | ♡10 | ♡9 | _♡J_ |11| _♡A_ | ♡2 | ♡Q | ♡3 | | 8♠ | 5♠ | _♡7_ | 4♢ |12| 2♢ | _3♢_ | ♡9 | ♡4 | | J♠ | ♣J | ♣10 | 10♠ |13| ♡J | _A♠_ | ♡10 | ♡5 | +-------+-------+-------+-------+ +-------+-------+-------+------+ _Solo player wins._ _Misère player loses._ In the first example, A and Y pass, and B calls Solo. A follows the modern practice of leading the top of his long weak suit, as a card of warning and support for his partners. Z knows Y must have 9 or Ace of diamonds, or no more, and he avoids the error of opening another suit, especially a weak one. B continues with the trump Queen, hoping to drop King and Jack together. At trick 5, Z cannot give up the command of trumps, and as A’s lead and discard indicate that he wants spades led up to him, Z’s best chance is that Y has some clubs. Y leads to A.
The K Q J 10 of each suit must be lifted together, none of these cards being touched until all four of the same suit are on the table together. When no cards can be lifted, the game is lost. The object in most patience games is to arrange the cards in sequences. An ascending sequence is one in which the cards run from A 2 3 up to the King; and a descending sequence is one in which they run down to the ace. Sequences may be formed of one suit or of mixed suits, according to the rules of the game. _=THE CARPET.=_ Shuffle and cut the pack. Deal out twenty cards in four rows of five cards each, face up. This is the carpet. Any aces found in it are taken out and used to form a fifth row, either at the bottom or the side.
You re a TK bruiser, he said, impressed. If you hit Barney s eyes like that, he s a Blind Tom for fair. Hardly, I sniffed. You ought to know that no respectable TK would lay a lift on a retina. I just squeezed off a couple of small arteries. He s back in business already, I d say. Had I mentioned the rustic _decor_ of the Sky Hi Club? When Las Vegas had deteriorated to the point where it would turn most stomachs, the better clubs migrated up among the tall pines, along the shores of Lake Tahoe. And in place of the dated chromium glitter of Vegas, they had reached way back to the Good old days for styling. The Sky Hi Club was typical. The outside was all hand-hewn logs.
It is an altogether elegant weapon. It was with one of these guns that the beginning of our war game was made. It was at Sandgate--in England. [Illustration: Showing a country prepared for the war game] [Illustration: Showing countries prepared for the war game] The present writer had been lunching with a friend--let me veil his identity under the initials J. K. J.--in a room littered with the irrepressible debris of a small boy s pleasures. On a table near our own stood four or five soldiers and one of these guns. Mr J. K.