. Chess and playing cards. ds, from which I haveextracted the following: To play the game a Dumber of straws or reeds uniform In size and of equal lengthw ere required. They were generally from (5 to 10 inches long. The number used intin- game was arbitrary. Lawson puts it at fifty-one, Charlevoix at two hundred andone. The only essential points were that the numbers should be odd and that thereshould be enough of them so that when the pile was divided into two parts, a glancewould not reveal which of the two divisions contained the odd number of its simplest form the game consisted
. Chess and playing cards. ds, from which I haveextracted the following: To play the game a Dumber of straws or reeds uniform In size and of equal lengthw ere required. They were generally from (5 to 10 inches long. The number used intin- game was arbitrary. Lawson puts it at fifty-one, Charlevoix at two hundred andone. The only essential points were that the numbers should be odd and that thereshould be enough of them so that when the pile was divided into two parts, a glancewould not reveal which of the two divisions contained the odd number of its simplest form the game consisted in separating the heap of straws into twoparts, one of which each player took, and he whose pile contained the odd numherof straws was the winner. Before the division was made the straws were subjected to a manipulation, somewhat afterthe manner of shuffling cards. Theywere then placed upon the deerskinor upon whatever other article wasv w^k selected as a surface on which to play. ^^Vv *7 The player who was to make the di-. ^^r V^ vision into two heaps, with many con
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