"Then why do you give me so many cards?" spreading out the cards side by side.
"A false deal. You've lost your deal," you exclaim, at the same time passing with a rapid glance all the cards in review before you.
This hasty glance, rapid as it is, has been long enough to show you, out of these eleven or twelve cards, which is the dominant suit.
You select four of them, and, as you ought to recollect, the three kings and three aces were amongst them.
To the four above-mentioned you add the king and the ace of hearts, and place them all together at the bottom of the pack; then, by an operation similar to that described for piquet, whilst pretending to shuffle, you put on the top of the pack—
- 1. Four cards from the bottom.
- 2. Three indifferent cards from the middle.
- 3. Two cards from the bottom.
- 4. Two indifferent cards.
The pack is accordingly thus arranged for playing. Eleven prepared cards. That is to say—
- 1. Two chance cards.
- 2. Two hearts.
- 3. Three chance cards.
- 4. Three hearts.
- 5. A heart, as the turn-up card.
You make a false shuffle, a false cut, and then proceed to deal.
"I turned up the king just now," you observe, in finishing the deal. "This time I shall keep it in my own hand." You mark the king, and make the point, which wins the game.