| |16.|Penny loaves will wash|Penny loaves ll get |Penny loaves will | | |away. |stole away. |tumble down. | |17.| -- | -- | -- | |18.| -- | -- | -- | |19.| -- | -- | -- | |20.| -- | -- | -- | |21.|Mend it up with pins | -- |Mend it up with pins | | |and needles.
_=OBJECTS OF THE GAME.=_ The game is fifty-one points, and the side first pegging that number, or getting rid of its fifty-one counters is the winner. Fourteen points are made on every deal, as follows:-- 1 For _=High=_, the ace of trumps. 1 For _=Low=_, the deuce of trumps. 1 For the _=Jack=_ of trumps. 1 For the Ten of trumps, or _=Game=_. 5 For the Five of trumps, or _=Right Pedro=_. 5 For the Five of the same colour, or _=Left Pedro=_. -- 14 points altogether; all in the trump suit. All these points, including Low, count to the player winning them, and not to the players to whom they are dealt.
The second party answers: What cans t thee do? First Party: Do anythin . Second Party: Work away. This the children proceed to do, some by pretending to sew, some to wash, some to dig, some to knit, without any instruments to do it with. If the opposite side guess what they are doing, they change sides. This game, Miss Summers believes, is very old, and has been played by several generations in the village of Hazelbury Bryan.--Dorsetshire (_Folk-lore Journal_, vii. 230). See Trades. Dump A boys amusement in Yorkshire, in vogue about half a century ago, but now believed to be nearly obsolete. It is played in this manner.
_=False Cards.=_ It requires more than ordinary skill to judge when a false card will do less harm to the partner than to the adversaries. There are some occasions for false-card play about which there is little question. Having a sequence in the adverse suit, the Second or Fourth Hand may win with the highest card, especially if the intention is to lead trumps. Holding K Q only, Second Hand may play the King, especially in trumps. Holding A K x, the Fourth Hand should play Ace on a Queen led by an American leader. With such a suit as K J 10 x, after trumps have been exhausted, the Ten is not a safe lead; Jack or fourth-best is better. Holding up the small cards of adverse suits is a common stratagem; and it is legitimate to use any system of false-carding in trumps if it will prevent the adversaries who have led them from counting them accurately. _=Playing to the Score.=_ The play must often be varied on account of the state of the score, either to save or win the game in the hand.
If he chooses the second card, which his adversary has not seen, he need not show it. If, on account of some undetected irregularity, an even number of cards remain in the stock, the last card must not be drawn. The winner of the trick takes the last but one, and the loser takes the trump card. _=OBJECTS OF THE GAME.=_ The aim of each player is to reach 1000 points before his adversary, and the one first reaching that number, and announcing it, wins the game. Points are scored for _=dix=_, _=melds=_, the _=last trick=_, and for _=cards=_, which are the counting cards in tricks won. _=Melds.=_ The various combinations which are declared during the play of the hand are called melds, from the German word melden, to announce. These melds are divided into three classes: _a_, Marriages and Sequences; _b_, Binocles; and _c_, Fours. Only one combination can be announced at a time, and it must be melded immediately after the player holding it has won a trick, and before he draws his card from the stock.
And so successively into Nos. 3 and 4. Next balance stone on shoe, then on the palm of hand, then on the back of hand, then on the head, then on the shoulder, then on the eye (tilt head back to keep it from falling). In each case walk round once with it so balanced and catch at end. In the third plan (fig. 3) the game is:--Put pebble in No. 1. Pick up. Hop, having one foot in No. 2 and the other in No.
| Wakefield. | +---+----------------------+----------------------+ | 1.| -- | -- | | 2.|Round the green |Around the green | | |gravel. |gravill. | | 3.| -- | -- | | 4.| -- | -- | | 5.| -- | -- | | 6.| -- | -- | | 7.
Should the player with the incorrect number of cards be the caller or his partner, the hand must be played out. Should the caller make good his proposition, he neither receives nor pays on that hand. If he fails, he must pay. Should the player with the defective hand be the adversary of the caller, he and his partners must pay the stakes on that hand, which may then be abandoned. Should two players have an incorrect number of cards, one of them being the caller, there must be a new deal. CARDS LIABLE TO BE CALLED. 20. The following cards are liable to be called by either adversary:-- I. Every card faced upon the table otherwise than in the regular course of play, but not including a card led out of turn. II.
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Do not take up your adversary’s men if you can help it, because by so doing you place obstacles in your own path, and assist him by allowing him to stay behind, which is just his game. Get past all his men if possible, especially if he has moved his two men out of your home table. _=The Backward Game.=_ Exactly the opposite tactics are of course the best for the player who is behind. He should keep two or three men in his adversary’s home table, preferably on the ace and deuce points, in the hope of catching some of the enemy, and setting them back. The result of these tactics, if successful, will be to offset the advantage of the adversary’s high throws early in the game, because every man captured not only has to start his journey over again, but is liable to be picked up a second or third time. As it is to the advantage of the forward player to avoid picking up men, the one who is behind can leave blots with great freedom, and may even spread his men so that some of them must be taken up. This intense back game is peculiarly American, for in the English game such tactics would usually result in a gammon, and often in a backgammon, and the player dare not risk so much just to save a hit. In the back game it is very important to spread the men freely, so that they may act as _=catchers=_. [Illustration: +-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-+ |⛀|⛀|⛂|⛀|⛀| ||⛂| | | | |⛂| |⛀|⛀|⛂|⛀|⛀| ||⛂| | | | |⛂| |⛀|⛀| | | | || | | | | | | |⛀| | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | || X X| | || X X| | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | |⛂| |⛂|⛂|⛂|| | | | | | | |⛂|⛂|⛀|⛂|⛂|⛂|| | | | | | | +-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-+ ] In the position shown in the margin, for instance, White has already thrown off three of his men, but one has been caught and set back.
We are going to London Bridge, London Bridge, London Bridge, We are going to London Bridge, My fair lady. London Bridge is broken down, Broken down, broken down, London Bridge is broken down, My fair lady. [Then verses follow, sung in the same way and with the same refrain, beginning with--] Mend it up with penny loaves. Penny loaves will wash away. Mend it up with pins and needles. Pins and needles they will break. Mend it up with bricks and mortar, Bricks and mortar, that will do. [After these verses have been sung--] What has this great prisoner done, Prisoner done, prisoner done, What has this great prisoner done? My fair lady. Stole a watch and lost the key, Lost the key, lost the key, Stole a watch and lost the key, My fair lady. Off to prison you must go, You must go, you must go, Off to prison you must go, My fair lady.
| +----+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | 1.| -- | -- | -- | | 2.|Here we come up the |Here we go up the |Trip, trap, over the | | |green grass. |green grass. |grass. | | 3.| -- | -- | -- | | 4.|On a dusty, dusty day.| -- | -- | | 5.| -- |So early in the | -- | | | |morning.
” If he cannot safely make it no-trump or red, he should pass, and allow his partner the chance. With such a hand as seven clubs, including four honours, and absolutely worthless cards otherwise, the dealer should make it clubs, except when the adversaries have won the first game, and are about 20 points in the second. This makes it not unlikely that they will win the rubber on the next hand with their deal. Under such circumstances the dealer must invariably leave it to his partner, in the hope that he can save the rubber by making it no-trump. The dealer’s partner should be aware that there cannot be any reasonable hope of four tricks in red in the leader’s hand, or a red trump would have been announced; and unless he has at least five probable tricks in his own hand he should not make it red. With three Aces he should make it no-trump. Four Aces is always a no-trumper, no matter what the rest of the hand may be. If he is obliged to make it black, and has three or four probable tricks, he should announce whichever suit he is best in. Attention should be paid to the score; for in many instances the suit must be selected so that the adversaries cannot win the game with the odd trick, even if they double. _=Doubling.
Buy a shawl, buy a new black shawl, A bonnet trimmed with white and a new parasol. Oh dear, oh dear, what can I do, For next Monday morning is my wedding due. --Shipley, Horsham; _Notes and Queries_, 8th series, i. 210 (Miss Busk). (_b_) The children form a ring by joining hands, one child standing in the centre. They dance round. At the mention of the second name one from the ring goes into the centre. The two kiss at the end of the verse, and the first child takes the place in the ring, and the game begins again. See All the Boys, Oliver, Oliver, follow the King. Drab and Norr A game similar to Trippit and Coit.
If he is content with his hand, he announces it, if not, he may exchange it for the one on his right. In case of exchange, the discarded hand is placed on the table face down; and the other taken up and played. If a player retains the hand originally dealt him, he must not look at the others. If the dealer exchanges, he loses the turn-up card, but the trump suit remains the same. Each player deals for himself in turn, there being no deal for the dead hands. Whist laws govern the deal and its errors. _=METHOD OF PLAYING.=_ The dealer’s adversary has the first lead; the other must follow suit if he can, and the highest card of the suit led wins the trick. Trumps win all other suits. _=SCORING.
If the dealer reshuffles the pack after it has been properly cut, he loses his deal. In _=Boston=_, _=Cayenne=_, and _=Solo Whist=_, the misdealer must deal again. DEALING. 13. When the pack has been properly cut and reunited, the dealer must distribute the cards, one at a time, to each player in regular rotation, beginning at his left. The last, which is the trump card, must be turned up before the dealer. At the end of the hand, or when the deal is lost, the deal passes to the player next to the dealer on his left, and so on to each in turn. In _=Solo Whist=_, the cards are distributed three at a time until only four remain in the pack. These are dealt one at a time, and the last turned up for trump. In _=Boston=_ and in _=Cayenne=_, the cards are dealt four at a time for two rounds, and then five at a time.
C., by two girls. Their game was not so long nor so complete as the above. They did not throw all four stones down as a preliminary stage, but began with the second figure, the four gobs being placed in a square ::, nor were they particular as to which stones they picked up. They knew nothing of numbering or naming them. Their marble was called a jack. They had places chalked on the pavement where they recorded their successful goes, and the game was played in a ring.--A. B. Gomme.
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Welcher, one who makes mouth bets, and afterward fails to pay. Whipsawed, losing two different bets on the same turn. Whiskey Hole, only one to go. Whitewashed, defeated without having scored a point. Wide Balls, those which are near the corner of the table, and are almost sure to be hit by a ball coming from either cushion. Wide Cards, those which are too far apart to be likely to form sequences. See Close Cards. Widow, any extra hand dealt in any game. Wimmeln, G., to bunch the points together; to fatten a trick for the partner.
cccclxxix.) which is very similar. Mr. Newell (_Games_, p. 55) prints words and tune of a song which is very similar to that ballad, and he mentions the fact that he has seen it played as a round by the Arabs of the street. He considers it to be an old English song which has been fitted for a ring game by the addition of a verse. See Lady on Yonder Hill. Lady on Yonder Hill I. Yonder stands a lovely lady, Whom she be I do not know; I ll go court her for my beauty, Whether she say me yea or nay. Madam, to thee I humbly bow and bend.
TWO-HAND JASS. When only two play, the game closely resembles American pinochle, the winner of each trick drawing a card from the top of the stock, the loser drawing the next one. All melds are made immediately after winning a trick and before drawing from the stock, only one meld at a time being allowed. It is not necessary to follow suit to anything until the stock is exhausted, after which all melds cease and the second player to each trick must win it if he can, but the jack of trumps still has the privilege of renouncing if a plain suit is led. PATIENCE POKER As its name implies, this is a form of solitaire, but it may be managed so as to provide a pleasing competition for any number of players. Both forms of the game will be described, the solitaire first. _=CARDS.=_ The full pack of fifty-two cards is shuffled and cut. Keeping it face down in the left hand, the top card is turned up and laid upon the table. The next card is turned up and laid in such a position that it touches the first one, either on one of its four edges, or one of its four corners.
=_ The rules governing these and cards played in error, are the same as at Boston. In piccolissimo, the penalties are the same as in misère. _=PAYMENTS.=_ If the caller succeeds in winning the proposed number of tricks, he is paid by each of his adversaries according to the value of his bid, as shown in Table No. 1. Over-tricks if any, and honours, if played, are always paid at the uniform rate of five white counters each. If the caller fails, he must pay each adversary the amount he would have won if successful, with the addition of five white counters for every trick that he falls short of his proposal. For instance: He bids nine hearts, and wins six tricks only. He must pay each adversary 115 white counters. TABLE No.