1.—THE LEGITIMIST.
TWO PACKS.
This name is of French origin, but it seems to have no special adaptation to the game. It may have been applied to it from some old royalist, who solaced his years of exile with the company of mimic kings and queens. It requires close attention, but is not otherwise difficult.
Take a king and place it at the left. Then, having shuffled your cards well together, begin to lay them off. You place in succession, in a horizontal row, next the king, the queen, the knave, ten, nine, eight, seven, and six, as they appear from the pack. On these you form the families of thirteen cards each, piling downwards, not following suit, and ending each family with the number next to the bottom card, so that you will finish, if successful, with a row of piles, whose top cards number from the ace to the seven, inclusive. Put the cards that you cannot immediately use in stock. You can take up this stock, re-shuffle it, and re-lay it twice.
You must be very careful to observe when your families are complete, for as each one ends with a different number, you will be likely to put on too many cards if you are inattentive.
2.—THE SULTAN.
TWO PACKS.
This is, perhaps, the most curious and interesting of all the games of Solitaire, and, if successful, it forms a pretty picture of the sultan or king of hearts, surrounded by his eight queens. As it is rather difficult to understand the arrangement, we have prepared a little diagram to illustrate it.