[CHAPTER XIII.]
ENTERTAINING TRICKS.
Piquet—Écarté—Baccarat—Impériale—Whist—Bouillotte—Bézigue—&c., &c.
In the former chapter I have given various examples of serious cheats performed by Greeks.
I shall now present to my readers, a series of what may be termed entertaining tricks; they are done in such a way that a juggler may, whilst amusing his spectators, show them how easily they may be cheated at every game.
Let us go back to the preceding coup de piquet, which we will now perform in a more agreeable manner.
We will suppose the juggler to have in his hand—
- 1. A sixième of spades.
- 2. A quatorze of aces.
- 3. A quatorze of kings.
His adversary is the elder hand; it is for him to call; he announces a sixième from the queen; for, as he has the chance of a sequence in three suits, it is most probable that he will succeed with one.