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Whift. 3. With ace and king of any two fuits, and only two
or three fmall trumps, the aces and kings fliould be
played out, in order to make as many tricks as poflible j
and having but two or three fmall trumps, he (tumid
never force his partner to trump, if he finds he cannot
follow fuit; but endeavour to throw the lead into his
partner’s hand.
4. He (hould in general return his partner’s lead, un-
lefs he has fome capital cards of his own.
5. As this game is played with the lurch, that is, to
fave half the (take, five points mud be made before the
game is out: he (hould not venture to play trumps
when he is four of the game, unlefs he is very drong,
having at lead an honour and three trumps, or ace,
king, and two fmall ones.
6. When the game is fcored nine, at whieh dage the
honours reckon for nothing, he diould be dill more cau¬
tious how he plays trumps, even if he is itrong in hand,
and give his partner an opportunity of trumping the ad-
verfaries fuits, in cafe he is deficient in them.
7. If his adverfaries are fix or feven love of the game,
he (hould play a forward or bold game, that he may
have a chance, at the ri(k of a trick or two, to come
up with them. If he has but three trumps and other
good cards, he may play trumps, efpecially if he has a
fequence, or queen, knave, and a fmall one.
8. He (hould always ri(k a trick or two when the
game is much in his favour ; becaufe a new deal is of
greater confequence to the adverfary than one or two
points are to him.
9. When the player finds there is a likelihood of ei¬
ther faving the game or his lurch, he (hould ri(k the odd
trick $ but if the game is five all, and he can make two
tricks in his own hand, he (hould make them, in order
to fecure the difference of two points, which make the
game near two to one in his favour.
to. A good player (hould begin with a fmall trump,
when he has ace, king, and four fmall ones j for this
reafon, if his partner has a better trump than the laft
player, which is an equal wager but he has, he has a
chance ®f fetching out all the trumps, by having three
rounds of them.
11. The odds are always in his favour that his part¬
ner holds an honour ; confequently if he has king,
queen, and four fmall ones, he (liould begin with a fnaall
one.
12. When queen, knave, and four fmall trumps are
dealt him, he (hould play a fmall one firft, the odds be¬
ing in his favour that his partner holds an honour; if
he has knave, ten, and four fmall trumps, he (hould alfo
begin with a fmall one, for the fame reafon.
13. If he has knave, ten, eight, and three fmall
trumps, the knave (hould be played firft, by which
means the nine may be prevented from winning a trick,
2he odds being in his favour that three honours are play¬
ed in two rounds.
14. If an honour is turned up againft him on his left
hand, and he has ten, nine, and eight, with two or three
fmall trumps 5 when he is to play, he (hould play through
the honours with the ten, which will force the dealer to
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play his honour to a difadvantage, if the dealer does not
choofe to leave it to the option of his adverfary whether
he will pafs it or not; but if he has fix trumps of a lower
denomination, and not ten, nine, and eight, and no ho¬
nour turned up againft him, he (hould begin with a fmall
one.
I5‘ general, when he has two capital cards in
trumps, and two or three fmall ones, he fhould begin
with a fmall one, for the reafon affigned in N° 12.
16. When he has ace, king, knave, and two fmall
trumps, or even one fmall trump, by firft playing the
king, and putting the lead into his partner’s hand, who
will play a trump ; judging him to have ace and knave,
from his beginning with the king : in this cafe the
knave (hould be fineffed (a), nothing being againft him
but the queen.
17. If he has knave, ten, eight, and two fmall trumps,
by playing the knave firft, it is odds but in two rounds
of trumps the nine falls, or he may fineffe the eight
when his partner returns trumps.
18. With five trumps of a lower denomination, he
(hould begin with the fmalleft, unlefs he has a fequence
of ten, nine, and eight; then he (hould begin with the
ten.
19. When he has king, queen, ten, and one fmall
trump, he muft begin with the king, and wait for his
partner’s return of the trumps, in order to fineffe the
ten, by which means he may win the knave.
20. In order to prevent the ten from winning, when
he has queen, knave, nine, and one fmall trump, he
muft begin with the queen. And in cafe he has knave,
ten, eight, and one fmall trump, he (hould begin with
the knave, that the nine may not win.
21. If he has ten, nine, eight, and one fmall trump,
he (hould begin with the ten $ thereby he ftrengthens
his partner’s hand, leaving it at his option to take it or
not.
22. He (hould begin with a fmall one, when he has
the ten and three fmall trumps.
23. If he has a good fuit, and ace, king, and four
fmall trumps, he muft play three rounds of trumps, in
order to fecure his ftrong fuit from being trumped.
24. When he has king, queen, ten, and three fmall
trumps, he (hould begin with the king, becaufe he has a
chance of the knave’s coming down in the fecond round j
and to fecure his ftrong fuit, he (hould not wait to fineffe
the ten. If he (hould have queen, knave, and three fmall
trumps, and fome good fuit to make, he muft begin with
a fmall one.
25. If he has knave, ten, eight, and two fmall trumps,
with a ftrong fuit, he (hould begin with the knave, in
order to make the nine fall in the fecond round *, but if
he has knave, ten, and three fmall trumps, with a good
fuit, he (hould play a fmall one firft.
26. With ten, nine, eight, and one fmall trump, pro¬
vided he has a good fuit, he (hould begin with the ten j
by which means he may get the trumps out, and have a
chance of making his ftrong fuit.
The following obfervations will enable a player to
know that his partner has no more of a fuit W'hich either
of
Whitt.
(a) Finejfey is to play a fmall card which may win, keeping the fuperior card or cards to lay over the right,
hand adverfary.