How many fingers do I hold up? Four, three, &c. [at random in reply]. How many horses has your father? Three [fixed reply]. What colour? White, red, and grey. Turn you about three times; Catch whom you may! --Deptford (Miss Chase). III. How many horses has your father got in his stables? Three. What colour are they? Red, white, and grey. Then turn about, and twist about, and catch whom you may. --Cornwall (_Folk-lore Journal_, v.
Punters, those who play against the banker. Puppy-foot, the ace of clubs. Quart, the English equivalent of the French word quatrième, a sequence of four cards. Quart Major, A K Q J of any suit. Quatorze, F., four cards of the same denomination. Quatrième, F., a sequence of four cards. Queue, F., the points added for winning the rubber.
202). Nares says the simpler plan here represented (fig. 2), which he had also seen cut on small boards, is more like the game than the one referred to in the variorem notes of Shakespeare. [Illustration: Fig. 2.] Forby has, _Morris_, an ancient game, in very common modern use. In Shakespeare it is called nine men s _morris_, from its being played with nine men, as they were then, and still are called. We call it simply _morris_. Probably it took the name from a fancied resemblance to a dance, in the motions of the men. Dr.
_=PLAYERS.=_ Euchre may be played by any number of persons from two to seven; but in the seven-handed game the full pack of fifty-three cards is used. Whatever the number of players, they cut for positions at the table, for partners, and for the deal. _=CUTTING.=_ The cards are usually spread, face down, and each candidate for play draws a card. [Illustration: SPREADING THE PACK.] When _=two=_ or _=three=_ play, the lowest cut has the choice of seats, and takes the first deal. When _=four=_ play, they cut for partners; the two highest pairing against the two lowest. The lowest has the choice of seats, and deals the first hand. When _=five=_ or _=seven=_ play, they have the choice of seats in their order, the lowest first, and the lowest cut deals.
[Illustration: 🂻 🃝 🃍 🃎 🂮] 3008 to 1 _=Tiger.=_ Must be seven high and deuce low; without a pair, sequence or flush. It beats a straight; but loses to a flush. [Illustration: 🃇 🂦 🂥 🂳 🃒] 636 to 1 _=Skip, or Dutch Straight.=_ Any sequence of alternate cards, of various suits. Beats two pairs and a blaze. [Illustration: 🂭 🂺 🃘 🃆 🃔] 423 to 1 _=Round-the-Corner.=_ Any straight in which the ace connects the top and bottom. Beats threes; but any regular straight will beat it. [Illustration: 🂾 🂱 🃂 🃃 🃔] 848 to 1 The rank of these extra hands has evidently been assigned by guess-work.