=_ If a player who can capture a piece neglects to do so, his adversary has the choice of three things:--To compel the player to take back his move and capture the piece; to huff (remove from the board,) the man that should have captured the piece; or to let the move stand, and go on with his own move. A huff does not constitute a move; the piece is simply removed from the board as a penalty, but the penalty must be enforced before the player exacting it makes his own move. _=Kings.=_ When a man arrives at any of the four squares on the edge of the board farthest from the side on which he started, he becomes a King, and is _=crowned=_ by putting another man of the same colour on the top of him. In diagrams, kings are distinguished by putting a ring round the single man. ⦾ ⦿. Kings can move either backward or forward, but only one square at a time. If a man arrives at the king-row by capturing an adverse piece, that ends the move, and the newly made king cannot move again, even to capture another piece, until his adversary has moved. [See notes to Diagram No. 7.
Every card faced upon the table otherwise than in the regular course of play. 2. Two or more cards played to a trick; the adversaries may elect which shall be played. 3. Any card named by the player holding it. The adversary on the right of an exposed card must call it before he plays himself. If it will be the turn of the player holding the exposed card to lead for the next trick, the card, if wanted, must be called before the current trick is turned and quitted. Should a player having the lead, and an exposed card in front of him, play before the previous trick is turned and quitted, the card so led may also be claimed as exposed. If a trump is exposed after the trump suit has been named, the adversaries may prevent the playing of such a card; but the holder of it is not liable to any penalty for a revoke under such circumstances. _=Leading Out of Turn.
If the eldest hand has decided, and the pone bids without waiting for the dealer’s partner, the pone loses his bid, and the dealer may bid before his partner. If the dealer bids without waiting for his partner, both lose their bids; but the pone may overbid the eldest hand. If the dealer’s partner has bid, and the dealer bids without waiting for the pone, the dealer loses his bid. If a player whose partner has not yet bid names the trump suit, his partner loses his bid. If a player bids with more than nine cards in his hand, his bid is lost, and the adversaries must draw the superfluous cards from his hand, face down, placing them about the middle of the undealt portion of the pack. If no bid is made, the dealer may name any trump he pleases, without bidding. If any player exposes any of his cards before the trump suit is named, the adversaries may elect to have a new deal by the same dealer. _=Discarding.=_ The trump named, each player must put out at least three of his cards, and may discard as many more as he pleases. All such discards must be placed on the table face up.
=_ If the trump card is an ace, the dealer may discard any card he pleases in exchange for it. He may take up the ace when he plays to the first trick, or may leave it on the pack until got rid of in the course of play. When an ace is turned, the eldest hand, before leading, should call upon the dealer to discard if he has not already done so. If the dealer does not want the trump, he answers: “I play these.” If the trump card is not an ace, any player at the table holding the ace of trumps is bound to announce the fact when it comes to his turn to play to the first trick. The usual plan is for him to pass a card to the dealer face downward, and in return the dealer will give him the turn-up trump. If the holder of the ace does not want the turn-up, he must tell the dealer to turn the trump down, which shows that he could rob, but does not wish to. If the holder of the ace of trumps plays without announcing it, he not only loses his right to rob, but his ace of trumps becomes of less value than any other trump for that deal, and even if it is the ace of hearts he loses the privileges attached to that card. _=METHOD OF PLAYING.=_ The eldest hand begins by leading any card he pleases.
Happily he babbled on, What does happen to us when we planoform? Do you think it s sort of like dying? Did you ever see anybody who had his soul pulled out? Pulling souls is just a way of talking about it, said Woodley. After all these years, nobody knows whether we have souls or not. But I saw one once. I saw what Dogwood looked like when he came apart. There was something funny. It looked wet and sort of sticky as if it were bleeding and it went out of him--and you know what they did to Dogwood? They took him away, up in that part of the hospital where you and I never go--way up at the top part where the others are, where the others always have to go if they are alive after the Rats of the Up-and-Out have gotten them. Woodley sat down and lit an ancient pipe. He was burning something called tobacco in it. It was a dirty sort of habit, but it made him look very dashing and adventurous. Look here, youngster.
See Hide and Seek. Bonnety This is a boys game. The players place their bonnets or caps in a pile. They then join hands and stand in a circle round it. They then pull each other, and twist and wriggle round and round and over it, till one overturns it or knocks a bonnet off it. The player who does so is hoisted on the back of another, and pelted by all the others with their bonnets.--Keith, Nairn (Rev. W. Gregor). Booman [Music] --Norfolk.
A-B score 10 points; Low, Game, and both Pedroes, 12, from which they deduct the 2 points made by Y-Z. _=No. 3.=_ | | _=No. 4.=_ A bids 12 on hearts. | T | A bids 8 on hearts. The draw: A 3; Y 5; | R | The draw: A 2; Y 4 B 3; Z 2. | I | B 4; Z 4. ------+------+------+------+ C +-------+------+------+----- A Y B Z | K | A Y B Z ------+------+------+------+---+-------+------+------+----- _♡A_ | ♡3 | 5♢ | ♡6 | 1 | _♡A_ | ♡6 | ♡J | ♡3 _♡K_ | ♡4 | ♡8 | ♡10 | 2 | ♡8 | ♡7 | ♡4 | _♡9_ ♡2 | ♡7 | ♡9 | _♡J_ | 3 | ♡Q | ♡2 | 4♢ | _♡K_ ♣Q | _♣K_ | ♣3 | ♣J | 4 | Q♠ | ♣2 | _♣A_ | ♣9 8♠ | _♣A_ | ♣10 | 2♢ | 5 | 5♢ | _♡5_ | ♣J | ♣7 _♡Q_ | Q♠ | K♢ | ♡5 | 6 | _♡10_ | 4♠ | J♢ | 2♢ _=No.
She blows, she blows, she blows so sweet. In came F---- S---- and gave her a kiss. E---- made a pudding, she made it nice and sweet, F---- took a knife and fork and cut a little piece. Taste of it, taste of it, don t say nay, For next Sunday morning is our wedding day. First we ll buy a money box, Then we ll buy a cradle; Rock, rock the bottom out, Then we ll buy another. Bread and cheese all the week, cork on Sunday, Half a crown on Saturday night, and a jolly good dance on Monday. --Cowes, Isle of Wight (Miss E. Smith). II. Down in the meadows where the green grass grows, To see ---- blow like a rose.
FIFTEEN-BALL POOL. The most successful pool player is not the one who can make difficult winning hazards with the greatest accuracy, but he who thoroughly understands playing for position. If he is familiar with the principles of the force, the follow, the draw, and the side stroke, he should invariably be able to leave himself in a good position for each succeeding shot; but unless he plans for position in advance, he can never hope to be more than an average player. To attain to proficiency in this there is no better training than playing so many balls or “no count.” There are some shots peculiar to winning hazards which should be understood by every pool player, and they are illustrated in the accompanying diagrams. [Illustration] _=No. 1=_ is the _=stirabout=_, and is a combination of the pinch and push shots. It is used when the cue and object balls are both very close to the pocket, but not in such a position as to allow the player to “cut” the ball in. The cue is held perpendicularly, and as low down on the ball as it will hold without slipping off. The ball is then slowly rolled over with the point of the cue until the cue begins to descend on the other side.
W. D. Sweeting). [Music] --Belfast (W. H. Patterson). I. I m come to court Janet jo, Janet jo, Janet jo, I m come to court Janet jo, How s she the day? She s up the stair washin , Washin , washin , She s up the stair washin , Ye canna see her the day. [Then follow verses, the words of which are not given by Chambers, representing Jenny as bleaching, drying, and ironing clothes. At last they say--] Janet jo s dead and gane, Dead and gane, dead and gane; Janet jo s dead and gane, She ll never come hame! --Chambers _Popular Rhymes_, pp.