(_c_) This game is practically the same as the Mulberry Bush. The action is carried on in the same way, except that the children clap their hands at the fourth line, instead of each turning themselves round, as in Mulberry Bush. The High, ho, ham! termination may be the same as the I, O, OM of Mr. Addy s version of Milking Pails. See Mulberry Bush, When I was a Young Girl. New Squat A ring is made by marking the ground, and a tin placed in the middle of it. One boy acts as keeper of the tin, the other players also stand outside the ring. One of these kicks the tin out of the ring, the others then all run to hide or squat out of sight. The keeper has to replace the tin before looking for the boys. If, after that, he can spy a boy, that boy must come out and stand by the ring.
The parties, ten or fifteen on a side, stand in line, facing their own goals and each other, at about ten yards distance, midway between the goals, and nearest that of their adversaries. An indifferent spectator, agreed on by the parties, throws up a ball, of the size of a common cricket-ball, midway between the confronted players, and makes his escape. It is the object of the players to seize and convey the ball between their own goals. The rush is therefore very great: as is sometimes the shock of the first onset, to catch the falling ball. He who first can catch or seize it speeds therefore home, pursued by his opponents (thro whom he has to make his way), aided by the jostlings and various assistances of his own _sidesmen_. If caught and held, or in imminent danger of being caught, he _throws_ the ball--but must in no case give it--to a less beleaguered friend, who, if it be not arrested in its course, or be jostled away by the eager and watchful adversaries, catches it; and he hastens homeward, in like manner pursued, annoyed, and aided, winning the notch (or snotch) if he contrive to _carry_, not _throw_, it between his goals. But this in a well-matched game is no easy achievement, and often requires much time, many doublings, detours, and exertions. I should have noticed, that if the holder of the ball be caught with the ball in his possession, he loses a _snotch_; if, therefore, he be hard pressed, he _throws_ it to a convenient friend, more free and in breath than himself. At the loss (or gain) of a _snotch_, a recommence takes place, arranging which gives the parties time to take breath. Seven or nine notches are the game--and these it will sometimes take two or three hours to win.
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Now they re married, I wish them joy, I wish them joy, I wish them joy, Now they re married, I wish them joy, About the merry-ma-tansie. Father and mother they must obey, Must obey, must obey, Father and mother they must obey, About the merry-ma-tansie. Loving each other like sister and brother, Sister and brother, sister and brother, Loving each other like sister and brother, About the merry-ma-tansie. We pray this couple may kiss together, Kiss together, kiss together, We pray this couple may kiss together, About the merry-ma-tansie. --Chambers _Popular Rhymes_, pp. 132-134. (_b_) At Biggar (Mr. Ballantyne) this game was generally played on the green by boys and girls. A ring is formed by all the children but one, joining hands. The one child stands in the centre.
OPENINGS. | PLAYER. | PLAYED.| WON BY | TOTAL +----+-----+-----+ | FIRST | GAMES |WON.|LOST.|DREW.| | PLAYER. | PLAYED. ---------------------+----+-----+-----+--------+---------+--------- Ruy Lopez |145 |103 | 58 | 306 | 57 | 20 Queen’s Pawn(a) | 97 | 63 | 39 | 199 | 48 | 13 French Defence | 84 | 48 | 39 | 171 | 60 | 11 Vienna | 47 | 34 | 15 | 96 | 57 | 6 Sicilian Defence | 40 | 29 | 10 | 79 | 57 | 5 King’s Gambit | 36 | 32 | 11 | 79 | 52 | 5 Giuoco Piano | 36 | 32 | 10 | 78 | 52 | 5 Evans | 34 | 20 | 12 | 66 | 61 | 4 Irregular | 29 | 31 | 14 | 74 | 49 | 5 Scotch | 22 | 26 | 9 | 57 | 47 | 4 Zukertort | 23 | 17 | 11 | 51 | 56 | 3 Two Knights Defence | 16 | 20 | 10 | 46 | 46 | 3 Staunton’s | 19 | 15 | 5 | 39 | 55 | 3 Fianchetto | 13 | 14 | 2 | 29 | 48 | 2 Petroff Defence | 15 | 9 | 3 | 27 | 61 | 2 Centre Gambit(b) | 11 | 11 | 4 | 26 | 50 | 2 Philidor Defence | 8 | 9 | 3 | 20 | 47 | 1 Miscellaneous | 22 | 29 | 6 | 57 | 44 | 4 +----+-----+-----+--------+---------+--------- Total |697 |542 | 261 | 1500 | | ---------------------+----+-----+-----+--------+---------+--------- The first player won 55.2 per cent.
Underhill knew that the sentence was going to be Captain, move fast! The battle would be fought and finished before Father Moontree got through talking. Now, fractions of a millisecond later, the Lady May was directly in line. Here was where the skill and speed of the Partners came in. She could react faster than he. She could see the threat as an immense Rat coming direct at her. She could fire the light-bombs with a discrimination which he might miss. He was connected with her mind, but he could not follow it. His consciousness absorbed the tearing wound inflicted by the alien enemy. It was like no wound on Earth--raw, crazy pain which started like a burn at his navel. He began to writhe in his chair.
It is 2½ to 1 against improving _=a pair=_ by drawing three cards; the chances against making triplets or two pairs being 8 to 1; against a full hand, 61 to 1; and against four of a kind, 364 to 1. It is 4 to 1 against improving a pair by drawing two cards; the chances against triplets being 12 to 1, and 8 to 1 against two pairs. It is 12 to 1 against making a full hand by drawing to _=two pairs=_. It is 8 to 1 against improving _=triplets=_ by drawing two cards; 14½ to 1 against a full hand, and 23 to 1 against four of a kind. It is 12 to 1 against improving if one card is drawn; 16 to 1 against the full, and 46 to 1 against four of a kind. It is 11 to 1 against making a straight out of a sequence of four cards which is open in the middle, or at one end only. It is 5 to 1 against making a straight out of a sequence of four which is open at both ends. [Illustration: 🂻 🃚 🂨 🂧 | 🂹 🃘 🂧 🃆 IN-BETWEEN STRAIGHT. OPEN-END STRAIGHT. ] It is 4½ to 1 against filling a four-card flush.
Ten hundred pounds we have not got. Then off to prison he must go. --Kent (Miss Dora Kimball). VII. London Bridge is falling down, Falling down, falling down, London Bridge is falling down, My fair lady. Build it up with mortar and bricks, Mortar and bricks, mortar and bricks, Build it up with mortar and bricks, My fair lady. [Then follow verses in the same style and with the same refrain, beginning with--] Bring some water, we ll wash it away. Build it up with silver and gold. Silver and gold will be stolen away. We ll set a man to watch at night.
Suppose the non-dealer holds these cards:-- [Illustration: 🃖 🂧 🂨 🂸 🂩 🃚 ] If he puts the two Eights in his adversary’s crib, he not only gives him two very good cards, which go to form a great many valuable combinations, but he leaves himself absolutely nothing but 2 points for a single fifteen, formed by the 9 and 6. It would be a little better, but still very bad play, for him to discard the 8 and 6, leaving himself a sequence of four cards and a fifteen, 6 points altogether. He might do a little better by discarding the 10 and 8, leaving himself a run of four, and two fifteens, 8 points altogether. If he discards either the 10 and 9, or the 10 and 6, he will leave himself a double run of three, a pair, and two fifteens, 12 altogether. Of these two discards, that of the 10 and 6 is better than the 10 and 9, because the 10 and 9 might help to form a sequence in the adversary’s crib, whereas the 10 and 6 are so far apart that they are very unlikely to be of any use. Cards which are likely to form parts of sequences are called _=close cards=_, and those which are too widely separated to do so are called _=wide cards=_. _=METHOD OF PLAYING.=_ The crib laid out and the starter cut, the pone begins by playing any card he pleases. The card he selects he lays face upward on the table on his own side of the cribbage board, and at the same time announces its pip value; two, five, or ten, whatever it may be. It is then the dealer’s turn to play a card from his hand, which is also laid face upward on the table, but on the dealer’s side of the cribbage board.
=_ When either player has succeeded in getting all his men home, he removes them from the board two or four at a time, according to the throws of the dice, provided he has men on the points in his home table corresponding to the numbers thrown. If not, he must move his men up toward the ace point. Doublets may take off four men if there are so many on the point. If there are no men on a number thrown, and the number is so high that the man farthest from the ace point cannot be moved up, that man may be taken off. In the diagram in the margin, for instance, Black has all his men home, and is ready to throw them off. If he threw six-deuce, having no men on either point he would have to move up the deuce; but the farthest man from the ace point cannot be moved up six, so he can throw that man off. This must result in leaving a blot, no matter which man is played up the two Points, and White may hit this blot on his next throw. Should he do so, Black would have to throw an ace to re-enter, as all the other points in White’s home table are covered, or “made up.” Black could not throw off another man until the one hit had not only been re-entered, but had made the circuit of the board and got home again. A player is not obliged to throw off a man if he prefers to move, but he must do one or the other.
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All other cards, including the Ace, retain their face value. There are no trumps, and the four suits are therefore equal in value at all times. _=MARKERS.=_ The game is 61 points, and is scored or “pegged” on a cribbage board, which has a double row of 30 holes on each side, and a game-hole at each end. The players are each provided with two pegs, and they score the points as they accrue by advancing their pegs from left to right according to the number of points they make. For instance: One player makes 6 for his first count. He places one of his pegs in the sixth hole from the left-hand end of the board. Then he makes 4, and places the second peg four holes in advance of the first, which will show that his total score is ten points. The third time he makes 2, which he scores by lifting out the back peg and putting it two holes in advance of the first one. This system of pegging not only shows the total number of points made by either player, but enables the adversary to check the count, as a glance at the distance between the two pegs will show the number of points pegged last time.
The following games may be abandoned as _=drawn=_:-- King and Bishop against a King. King and Knight against a King. King and two Knights against a King. King and Queen against two Rooks. King and Queen against King and two Bishops. King and Rook against King, Rook and Pawn. King and Rook against King and Bishop. King and Rook against King and Knight. King and Rook against King, Rook and Bishop. The following games can be _=won=_:-- King and Queen, or King and Rook, against a King.
Either side should be at home with 48 to 50 on two deals; four individual hands of 7 each, four plays of five each, and one crib of 5. SEVEN-CARD CRIBBAGE. This form of the game for two players differs from the others only in the number of cards dealt to each player, which is seven. Two are laid out for the crib, and five kept for playing. There being six cards in each hand, with the starter, the counting combinations sometimes run into high figures, and it is therefore usual to play the game 121 or even 181 points up. * * * * * There are no authoritative _=LAWS=_ for Cribbage, but the foregoing descriptions contain all the regulations in force at the best clubs. TEXT BOOKS. The Cribbage Player’s Handbook, by Walker. Bézique and Cribbage, by Berkeley. Pocket Guide to Cribbage, by “Cavendish.
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Foster s Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of Games This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title: Foster s Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of Games Author: R. F. Foster Release date: January 3, 2017 [eBook #53881] Most recently updated: October 23, 2024 Language: English Credits: Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FOSTER S COMPLETE HOYLE: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GAMES *** Transcriber’s Note: In this text version, the illustrations from the original book (which may be found in the HTML version) have been reproduced where possible, using the Unicode characters for playing cards, dice, draughts etc.