In the formation of fresh tables, those candidates who have neither belonged to nor played at any other table have the prior right of entry; the others decide their right of admission by cutting. 23. Any one quitting a table prior to the conclusion of a rubber may, with consent of the other three players, appoint a substitute in his absence during that rubber. 24. A player cutting into one table, whilst belonging to another, loses his right of re-entry into that latter, and takes his chance of cutting in, as if he were a fresh candidate. 25. If any one break up a table, the remaining players have the prior right to him of entry into any other, and should there not be sufficient vacancies at such other table to admit all those candidates, they settle their precedence by cutting. SHUFFLING 26. The pack must neither be shuffled below the table nor so that the face of any card be seen. 27.
net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | TRANSCRIBER S NOTES: | | | | Text printed in italics in the original work is presented here | | between underscores, as in _text_. Similarly, bold face in the | | original is represented as =text=. | | | | Footnotes have been moved to the end of the description of the | | game. | | | | [Illustration] means that there is an illustration present in the | | text; [Music] means a transcription in musical notation. | | | | [Greek: text] represents a transcription of Greek text. [=a] and | | [=e] represent a-macron and e-macron, respectively. The oe- | | ligature is transcribed as [oe]. | | | | More Transcriber s Notes may be found at the end of this text. | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ A DICTIONARY OF BRITISH FOLK-LORE EDITED BY G. LAURENCE GOMME, ESQ.
Edward L. Rimbault, writing in _Notes and Queries_, vi. 586, says it was formerly the custom at weddings, both of the rich as well as the poor, to dance after dinner and supper. In an old Court masque of James I. s time, performed at the marriage ceremony of Philip Herbert and Lady Susan (MS. in the writer s possession), it is directed that, at the conclusion of the performance, after supper the company dance a round dance. This was dancing the bride to bed. William Chappell (_Notes and Queries_, ii. 442) says, I have a tune called A round dance to dance the bride to bed. It dates from about 1630, or earlier, and resembles that of The Hunt is up.
There is no necessity for the fortunate player to show his hand; the mere fact that he is the only one holding any cards is prima facie evidence that his hand is the best. On the same principle, the player who has made a bet or raise which no other player will see, wins the pool without showing his hand, as he must be the only one with cards in his hand; for when a player refuses to see a bet he must abandon his hand, and with it all pretensions to the pool. If he wishes to call, but has not money enough, he must borrow it. He cannot demand a show of hands for what counters he has, except in table stakes. During the betting, players are at liberty to make any remarks they see fit, and to tell as many cheerful lies about their hands as they please. A player may even miscall his hand when he shows it; the cards speak for themselves, just as the counters do, and what a player says does not affect either in the slightest. If a player says: “I raise you two blues,” the statement amounts to nothing until the blues have been placed in the pool, and the owner’s hand removed from them. There is no penalty if a player, during the betting, tells his adversaries exactly what he holds; nor is he likely to lose anything by it, for no one will believe him. _=JACK POTS.=_ The addition of jack pots has probably done more to injure Poker than the trump signal has injured Whist.
e._, each player who holds one honour scores the value of a trick; each player who holds two honours scores twice the value of a trick; a player who holds three honours scores three times the value of a trick; a player who holds four honours scores eight times the value of a trick; and a player who holds five honours scores ten times the value of a trick. In a no-trump declaration, each ace counts ten, and four held by one player count 100. The declarer counts separately both his own honours and those held by the dummy. (14) A player scores 125 points for winning a game, a further 125 points for winning a second game, and 250 points for winning a rubber. (15) At the end of the rubber, all scores of each player are added and his total obtained. Each one wins from or loses to each other the difference between their respective totals. A player may win from both the others, lose to one and win from the other, or lose to both. [23] This hand is generally dealt opposite to the dealer. THE LAWS OF DUPLICATE AUCTION.
Then the Mother commences to chase them until she catches them, and when she gets them to any particular place in the field where the others are playing, she says-- Where have you been? Up to grandmother s. What have you done that you have been away so long? I have cleaned the grate and dusted the room. What did she give you? A piece of bread and cheese so big as a house, and a piece of plum cake so big as a mouse. Where s my share? Up in higher cupboard. It s not there. Up in lower cupboard. It s not there. Then the cat have eat it. Where s the cat? Up in heath. Where s the heath? The fire burnt it.
And there s something mighty unnerving about being stricken suddenly blind. Oh, face it, I suppose the real reason I felt for the arteries supplying blood to his retinas was that so few TK s can do it. I clamped down tight, and his lights went out. He cried out in fright, and both hands came groping up in front of him, his fingers trembling. I m blind! he said, not able to believe it. He began to lose his balance. I felt one of the bouncers go for his sap. Try it, you gorilla, I told him, wrenching around, now that I was free on his side. Try it and I ll rip the retinas off your eyeballs the way you d skin a peach! He recoiled as though I were a Puff Adder. The other bouncer let go of me, too.
=_ The Standard board must be of light and dark squares, not less than fourteen inches nor more than fifteen inches across said squares. _=2.=_ The board shall be so placed that the bottom corner square, on the left hand, shall be black. _=3.=_ The Standard men, technically described as White and Black, must be light and dark (say white and red, or yellow and black), turned, and round, not less than one inch, nor more than 1⅛ inches in diameter. _=4.=_ The men shall be placed on the black squares. _=5.=_ The black men shall invariably be placed upon the real or supposed first twelve squares of the board; the white upon the last twelve squares. _=6.
Not unless you re black and blue. Here s my black and here s my blue, Open the gates and let me through. Dan, Dan, thread the needle; Dan, Dan, sew. --_Suffolk County Folk-lore_, p. 63. XIV. How many miles to Babylon? Three score and ten. Shall I be there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. Open the gates as wide as high, And let King George and his family pass by. --Wales (_Folk-lore Record_, v.
. . . I have heard it credibly reported (and that _viva voce_) by men of great grauitie and reputation, that of fortie, threescore or a hundred maides going to the wood ouer night, there haue scaresly the third part of them returned home againe undefiled. Herrick s _Hesperides_ also describes the festival, and the custom of courting and marriage at the same time. The tune sung to this game appears to be the same in every version. END OF VOL. I. BALLANTYNE PRESS PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON Transcriber s notes: General: This eBook is Volume I of a two-volume work.
In a Grand, if a Jack is led, players must follow suit with the other Jacks, they being trumps. _=Abandoned Hands.=_ If the single player finds he has overbid himself, or sees that he cannot make as good a game as bid, he may abandon his hand to save himself from being made schneider or schwarz, provided he does so before he plays to the second trick. A Solo cannot be abandoned in this manner, as the rule is made only to allow a player to get off cheaply who has been unlucky in finding nothing in the Skat to suit his hand. For instance: A player has risked a Tourné with a missing suit, and turns up that suit. He can abandon his hand at once, losing his bid or the next higher game, but escaping schneider. _=Irregularities in the Hands.=_ If, during the play of a hand, any person is found to have too many or too few cards, the others having their right number, it is evident that there has been no misdeal if the pack is perfect and there are two cards in the Skat. If the player in error has too few cards, probably from having dropped one on the floor, or having played two cards to the same trick, he loses in any case, but the adversary may demand to have the hand played out in order to try for schneider or schwarz, and the last trick, with the missing card, must be considered as having been won by the side not in fault. If the player in fault is opposed to the single player, his partner suffers with him.
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Pray what is your complaint to me? They won t surrender, they won t surrender The Tower of Barbaree. Take one of my brave soldiers. --Lady Camilla Gurdon s _Suffolk County Folk-lore_, p. 63. IV. You must surrend me, you must surrend me To the Queen of Barbaloo. No, we ll not surrend you, no, we ll not surrend you To the Queen of Barbaloo. We ll complain, we ll complain, &c. [To the Queen of Barbaloo.] You can complain, you can complain, &c.
Figure, F., K, Q or J. Fille, F., see Widow. Finesse, any attempt to take a trick with a card which is not the best of the suit. First, Second, or Third Hand, the positions of the players on any individual trick. Five Fingers, the five of trumps at Spoil Five. Flèches, the points upon a backgammon board. Fluke, making a count that was not played for. Flush, cards of the same suit.
A. Proctor. Complete Poker Player, by John Blackbridge. Bohn’s Handbook of Games. Betting and Gambling, by Major Churchill. TEN PINS. The standard American game of Ten Pins is played upon an _=alley=_ 41 or 42 inches wide, and 60 feet long from the head pin to the foul or scratch line, from behind which the player must deliver his ball. There should be at least 15 feet run back of the foul line, and the gutters on each side of the alley must be deep enough to allow a ball to pass without touching any of the pins standing on the alley. [Illustration: 7 8 9 10 4 5 6 2 3 1 ] _=The Pins=_ are spotted as shown in the margin, the centres 12 inches apart, and those of the back row 3 inches from the edge of the pit. The regulation pins are 15 inches high, 2¼ diam.
These schools were at a very short distance from Campo Lane, and it seems probable that here the game of football was played (Addy s _Sheffield Glossary_). The camping-land appropriated to this game occurs in several instances in authorities of the fifteenth century (Way s Note in _Prompt. Parv._, p. 60). In Brinsley s _Grammar Schoole_, cited by Mr. Furnivall in _Early English Meals and Manners_, p. lxii., is this passage: By this meanes also the schollars may be kept euer in their places, and hard to their labours, without that running out to the Campo (as they tearme it) at school times, and the manifolde disorders thereof; as watching and striuing for the clubbe and loytering then in the fields. See Football.
The successful candidate for the girl s choice claims a kiss, but if unsuccessful he is beaten out of the room with knotted handkerchiefs. Hitch Jamie; Hitch Jamie, Stride and Loup The boyish play of Hop, Step, and Jump. --Atkinson s _Cleveland Glossary_. Brockett (_North Country Words_) calls this Hitch. See Half-Hammer, Hick, Step, and Jump. Hitchapagy An undescribed Suffolk game.--Halliwell s _Dictionary_. Hitchy Cock Ho An undescribed Suffolk game.--Moor s _Suffolk Words_. Hity Tity The Somerset name for See-Saw.
--Frodingham and Nottinghamshire (Miss M. Peacock). IX. Stepping up the green grass, Thus, and thus, and thus; Will you let one of your fair maids Come and play with us? We will give you pots and pans, We will give you brass, We will give you anything For a pretty lass. No! We won t take your pots and pans, We won t take your brass, We won t take your anything For a pretty lass. Stepping up the green grass, Thus, and thus, and thus; Will you let one of your fair maids Come and play with us? We will give you gold and silver, We will give you pearl, We will give you anything For a pretty girl. Yes! Come, my dearest [Mary], Come and play with us, You shall have a young man Born for your sake. And the bells shall ring And the cats shall sing, And we ll all clap hands together. --Addy s _Sheffield Glossary_. X.