In finishing your counting, you put the three kings and the three aces on these six cards, which brings it to a hundred and twenty-three. This, with forty for the capot, makes a hundred and sixty-three.
The pack not being played out, the cards have not been shuffled, and it is easy, with the slight preparation I have just pointed out, to arrange the following coup.
PART I.
ÉCARTÉ.
An Amusing Game at Écarté.
According to the arrangement of the cards mentioned in the preceding trick, you have in hand six spades, three kings, and three aces, which you put on the pack.
You then take up, with apparent indifference, the three cards of your discard, which you have left close to yourself, and place them under the two first cards; then, by a false shuffle, you pass two of the undermost cards of the pack to the top.
This manœuvre arranges the cards in the following manner:
Two indifferent cards.
Two spades.
Three indifferent cards.