Whist; or, Bumblepuppy? Thirteen Lectures Addressed to Children

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John Petch Hewby. Whist; or, Bumblepuppy? Thirteen Lectures Addressed to Children

Whist; or, Bumblepuppy? Thirteen Lectures Addressed to Children

Table of Contents

PREFACE

LECTURE I —— INTRODUCTORY ——

Notes on some of the Laws

LECTURE II —— THE LEAD ——

LECTURE III —— THE PLAY OF THE SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH HAND ——

LECTURE IV —— DISCARDING, AND ITS DIFFICULTIES ——

The Principles of Discarding

Resumption of Note C, page 36

Playing for Amusement

LECTURE V —— THE DISCARD FROM THE STRONGEST SUIT. ——

Part I

Part II

LECTURE VI —— THE ELEVEN RULE (by desire). ——

LECTURE VII —— THE PETER AND ITS PECULIARITIES ——

LECTURE VIII —— FALSE CARDS, LOGIC, LUCK ——

LECTURE IX —— WHIST AS AN INVESTMENT ——

LECTURE X —— ON THINGS IN GENERAL ——

LECTURE XI —— THINKING ——

LECTURE XII —— TEMPER ——

LECTURE XIII —— DETERIORATION OF WHIST, ITS CAUSES AND CURE ——

SPECIMEN OF BUMBLEPUPPY IN EXCELSIS

THE DOMESTIC RUBBER

DOUBLE DUMMY

EPILOGUE I ——

EPILOGUE II ——

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John Petch Hewby

Published by Good Press, 2019

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If you see a potent, grave, and reverend seignior carefully lubricating his thumb with saliva, don’t imagine he is preparing it for deglutition, he is only about to deal. Even if he should swallow it, why interfere? he will not hurt you; it is not your thumb. Should you suffer from acute hyperæsthesis you can follow the example of an old friend of mine, who once rose from the table in his terror, and returned armed with a large pair of black kid gloves which he wore during the remainder of the seance: though the effect was funereal—not to say ghastly—it was attended with the best results in this case, but it is just as likely to lead to ill-feeling, and therefore to be deprecated. Leave the matter to time! Apart from the cards being glazed with lead, a single pack has been found to contain a fifth of an ounce of arsenic, and there is no known antidote. Even if not immediately fatal, the practice must be very deleterious. A whist enthusiast with a greater turn for mathematics than I can lay claim to, has counted from six to seven thousand bacteria on each square centimetre of a playing card, and makes this ghastly deduction: “it is really dreadful to reflect upon the colony of microbes which a person who moistens his thumb before dealing may convey into his mouth, and thence into his system.”—Standard, Nov. 2nd, 1893. “Everything comes to the man who can wait,” and while you are waiting always sit on the dealer’s right.

Law 37.—An incorrect or imperfect pack is a pack containing duplicates or more or less than fifty-two cards, but it is neither incorrect nor imperfect because you think fit to place any number of your own cards in the other pack, or to supplement them with one from it. Vide Laws 42, 46.

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