But it added something very solid to her claims of prophecy. All this, I said. Because you see the future? Yes, Billy Joe. And this talk about losing your prophecy because of divorce was just that, talk? I insisted. Her mouth worked silently. I talk like trash, and sometimes I start to think like it, she confessed. I even act like it. I ve tried not to see things acomin . But, she added, drifting back into her Ozark lingo. Always I knowed I was to find you.
The trump card belongs to neither player. The winner of the odd trick scores a point. Five points is game. MORT. WHIST À TROIS; OR FRENCH DUMMY. _=MORT=_ means simply the dead hand; and is the equivalent of the English word Dummy; the partner being known as _=Vivant=_, or the living hand. In these words the English usually sound the _=t=_, as they do in such words as _=piquet=_, and _=valet=_. _=CARDS.=_ Mort is played with a full pack of fifty-two cards, ranking as at whist for cutting and playing. Two packs are generally used.
IX. Green gravels, green gravels, The grass is so green, And all the pretty maidens Are not to be seen, Except ---- (said twice), And she s not [?] to be seen, So I send you a letter to turn round your head. --Hampshire (Miss E. Mendham). X. Green gravels, green gravels, the grass is so green, Fine pencils, fine pencils, as ever were seen. O Mary! O Mary! your true love is dead, And he s sent you a letter to turn round your head. --Wales (_Byegones_, 1890). XI. Yellow gravel, yellow gravel, The grass is so green, The fairest young lady That ever was seen.