cance: How are you to play the Game? A. Play the Ace of your beft Suit, which informs your Partner, that you have the Command there; next play your Ten of Trumps, for it is 5 to 2 that your Partner has King, Queen, or Knave of Trumps; now, tho' it be 7 to 2 that he has not two Honours, yet if he fhould be fo lucky as to hold them, fuppofe the King and Knave, he will pass your Ten of Trumps, and it is 13 to 12 against the last Player, that he holds the Queen, if your Partner has it not your Partner having got the Lead, plays to your good Suit; and when you have the Lead, you play the Nine of Trumps, which puts it in your Partner's Power to win the Queen, if fhe lies behind him. Thus, if you play by this Rule, your Adverfary's turning up an Ace, will be rendered of little Advantage.

II. When you fee a King or Queen turned up on your Right-hand, you are to play in the fame Manner, as directed by the foregoing Article; but always obferve your Partner's Ability, which an accurate Player can turn to good Account.

III. You have the Ace and Four fmall Trumps, with a good Suit; your Righthand Adversary leads the King of Trumps, which it will be to your Advantage to pafs, tho' he should have the King, Queen, and Knave, and One more of the fame in his

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Hand, if he is a middling Player, he will play the fmall One, concluding that his Partner holds the Ace; this you must likewise pafs, because it is an equal Bett, that your Partner has a better Trump than the last Player; and if he has, he will fuppofe you have some special Reason for playing thus, and will therefore play his third Trump if he has it, if not, he will lead with his best Suit.

To win the odd TRICK upon the Pinch of a GAME.

IV. AB are Partners against CD; the Game is Nine all; the Trumps are all played out; the laft Player is A, who holds the Ace and Four other fmall Cards of a Suit, befides One thirteenth Card; B holds only Two fmall Cards of A's Suit; of the fame Suit, C holds Queen and Two other small Cards; of the fame Suit, D holds King, Knave, and a small Card. A and B have got three Tricks; C and D have gained Four Tricks; therefore is to get four Tricks out of the fix Cards in Hand to win the Game. C leads his Suit, upon which D puts his King; A lets him win it; D returns that Suit, which is paffed by A, and C takes it with his Queen; C and D then have got fix Tricks, and C fuppofing that his Partner holds the Ace of that Suit, returns it, which

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puts it in A's Power to win the Four laft Tricks, which gives him the Game.

V. You hold the King and Five fmall Trumps, and your Adverfary on the Righthand plays the Queen, you are not to put the King upon it, because it's poffible your Partner may have the Ace; and if your Adversary holds the Ten, Knave, Queen, and One small Trump, it's an equal Chance, that the Ace lies fingle in the Hand either of your Partner or Adverfary; in neither of which Cafes fhould you play the King; but if your Adversary leads the Queen of Trumps, in this Cafe you had beft play the King, if you have two or three Trumps more; for it is right to lead from the Queen and One fmall Trump only; for if your Partner has the Knave of Trumps, and the Ace is held by your Lefthand Adversary, your not playing the King will lofe you a Trick.

DIRECTIONS to play fome particular GAMES.

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OU have in your Hand King, Queen and Knave of one Suit, Ace, King, Queen, and Two fmall Cards of another Suit, King and Queen of a third Suit, with three fmall Trumps: In this Cafe, your best Play is, to begin with Ace of your best Suit, by which your Partner will know you have the Command

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Command of that Suit; if this goes round, then play a Trump; but if you perceive your Partner is not able to fupport you in Trumps, and that your weak Suit is played to by your Adversary; then play the King of your beft Suit, and if you fee a Likelihood that that Suit will be trumped, then play the King of the Suit of which you have King, Queen, and Knave. But if your Adverfaries fhould not play to your weakeft Suit, then, tho' your Partner can afford you no Affistance in Trumps, yet you must trump away as often as you get the Lead. Thus, tho' your Partner fhould hold but two Trumps, and your Adverfaries Four each, in three Rounds there will remain but two Trumps against you.

You are elder Hand, and have Queen, King, and Ace, and One fmall Trump, and Five in Sequents from the King in another Suit, with Four other Cards of no Account: Play the Queen of Trumps firft, then the Ace, which informs your Partner you have the King. Now you are not to play Trumps the third Round, till you have got the Command of your great Suit; and by this Means, you will likewife fhew your Partner, that you have ftill the King and one Trump more; for, fuppofing you had the Three chief Trumps and two more, and Trumps had twice been play'd, you would fuffer no Damage by playing the King the

third Round. In playing Sequents, lead the lowest first, and if your Partner plays the Ace, it makes Room for your Suit; and he being thus appriz'd of the State of your Game, if he has a Trump or two left, he will play Trumps to you, and it's highly probable, that your King will fetch all the Trumps out of your Adverfaries Hands.

Again; you are fecond Player, and hold in Trumps Ace, King, and Two fmall ones, in another Suit a Quint-Major, Three small Cards in a third Suit, and One in the fourth Suit. Your Right-hand Adverfary leads with the Ace of your weak Suit, and follows with his King, in which Cafe you must not trump it, but throw away a lofing Card, and fo if he plays his Queen; and if he plays it a fourth Time, you must do the fame, from a Perfuafion that your Partner will trump it, who will then play a Trump, or elfe to your ftrong Suit. When you have got the Lead, proceed with Trumps for two Rounds, and then go to your strong Suit, and if One of your Adverfaries fhould hold four Trumps, and the other Two, which is pretty near the Matter, and it being reasonable to fuppofe that your Partner has three Trumps out of the Nine, therefore your Adversaries having only Six Trumps between them, your strong Suit will bring out their beft Trumps, and by that Means, give you an Opportunity of

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