In table stakes the betting limit is always the amount that the player has in front of him; but no player is allowed either to increase or diminish that amount while he has any cards in front of him. Before the cards are dealt for any pool he may announce that he wishes to buy counters, or that he has some to sell to any other player wishing to purchase; but for either transaction the consent of all the other players must be obtained. No player is allowed under any circumstances to borrow from another, nor to be “shy” in any pot; that is, to say, “I owe so many.” If he has any counters in front of him, his betting is limited to what he has; if he has none, he is out of the game, for that hand at least. As a player cannot increase the amount he has in front of him during the play of a hand, it is best to keep on the table at all times as much as one is likely to want to bet on any one hand. It is the usual custom, and an excellent one, to fix upon a definite hour for closing a game of table stakes, and to allow no player to retire from the game before that hour unless he is _=decavé=_, (has lost all his capital). Should he insist on retiring, whatever counters he has must be divided among the other players, and if there are any odd ones after the division, they must be put into the current pool. In table stakes, any player may _=call a sight=_ for what money or counters he has in front of him, even should another player have bet a much larger amount. For instance: A has bet three dollars, and B has only two dollars in front of him, but wishes to call A. B calls for a sight by putting his two dollars in the pool, and A must then withdraw his third dollar from the pool, but leave it on the table to be called or raised by any other player.
If the dealer declare himself unable to recollect the trump card, his highest or lowest trump may be called at any time during that hand, and unless it cause him to revoke, must be played; the call may be repeated, but not changed, _i.e._, from highest to lowest, or _vice versa_, until such card is played. CARDS LIABLE TO BE CALLED. 56. All exposed cards are liable to be called, and must be left on the table; but a card is not an exposed card when dropped on the floor, or elsewhere below the table. The following are exposed cards:-- I. Two or more cards played at once. II. Any card dropped with its face upward, or in any way exposed on or above the table, even though snatched up so quickly that no one can name it.
--Patterson s _Antrim and Down Glossary_. Dalies A child s game, played with small bones or pieces of hard wood. The _dalies_ were properly sheep s trotters.--Halliwell s _Dictionary_. Evidently the same game as Fivestones and Hucklebones. Davie-drap Children amuse themselves on the braesides i the sun, playing at Hide and Seek with this little flower, accompanying always the hiding of it with this rhyme, marking out the circle in which it is hid with the forefinger:-- Athin the bounds o this I hap, My black and bonny davie-drap; Wha is here the cunning yin My davie-drap to me will fin. --Mactaggart s _Gallovidian Encyclopædia_. The davie-drap is a little black-topped field-flower. Deadily A school game, not described.--Mactaggart s _Gallovidian Encyclopædia_.