- 1. The two last cards.
- 2. The third, the sixth and the ninth before the last.
- 3. The last card.
- 4. The second, the fourth and the sixth before the last.
- 5. The four last cards.
A false shuffle, a false cut, and deal.
Each player, possessing three cards of the same sort, feels almost certain of winning.
It is not surprising, therefore, that each person stakes on his cards; but the dealer, having four cards of the same sort, marks higher than any of his opponents; and is, of course, the winner.
PART XI.
BÉZIGUE.
A curious Game at Bézigue, in which, with a single hand of Thirty-two Cards, you make, at the first "coup," five hundred and ten points, without your Adversary having been able to mark a single one.
This game is very amusing, and merits a description of its mise en scène. This we shall give after the cards are cut.
Put at the bottom of the pack, the seventeen cards which follow:
- 1. Ten of hearts.
- 2. Ten of clubs.
- 3. Ten of diamonds.
- 4. King of hearts.
- 5. King of clubs.
- 6. King of diamonds.
- 7. Ace of hearts.
- 8. Ace of clubs.
- 9. Ace of diamonds.
- 10. Ace of spades.
- 11. King of spades.
- 12. Queen of spades.
- 13. Knave of spades.
- 14. Ten of spades.
- 15. Nine of spades,
- 16. Seven of spades.
- 17. Eight of spades.