The laws and principles of whist stated and explained and its practice illustrated on an original system, by means of hands played completely through . EemARK.—Note the ad-vantage of tlie return of thestrengthening card at Trick2, in accordance with Gen-eral Principles (p. 84). Thecommand is left with tliepresumably strong hand :and the queen is completelyhemmed in. It is true thequeen might have been inTs hand. In that case thequeen must make whatevercard is returned. A similarposition occurs at Trick 9. Trick Trick 4. A Tricks I ^ iRICKsIf Y Z, 1 Remark.—A did not leadthe trump at first


The laws and principles of whist stated and explained and its practice illustrated on an original system, by means of hands played completely through . EemARK.—Note the ad-vantage of tlie return of thestrengthening card at Trick2, in accordance with Gen-eral Principles (p. 84). Thecommand is left with tliepresumably strong hand :and the queen is completelyhemmed in. It is true thequeen might have been inTs hand. In that case thequeen must make whatevercard is returned. A similarposition occurs at Trick 9. Trick Trick 4. A Tricks I ^ iRICKsIf Y Z, 1 Remark.—A did not leadthe trump at first ; but nowhe does so for these reasons :he has the long card of hissuit ; trumps are his strong-est suit (p. 110) ; and theadversaries have had theopportunity of calling fortrumps {see pp. 115-118),and have not made use ofit, which is negative evi-dence that there is no verygreat strength of trumps inone hand. Trick 6. B ¥ ¥- ¥ ¥ ¥ J TRICKS {^1; I WHIST. 161 Tkick 7.


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