CLASSIFICATION, UNDER PRETENCE OF SHUFFLING.
Place in succession on the top of the pack:
- 1. The five last (five spades).
- 2. Three indifferent cards.
- 3. Three cards from the bottom of the pack (three spades).
- 4. Four indifferent cards.
The classification above mentioned, ought to answer for both packs. The "talon," or stock, must then be arranged, so that all the cards necessary for you to win the game with will come successively into your hands. For this purpose, you must change the form of your false shuffle, and continue thus:
1st. Take in your right hand, the fourteen first cards, which have been placed on the top of the pack.
2nd. Hold the rest of the pack in your left hand between the thumb and four fingers, then slip in successively under the packet in your right hand:
1st. With the thumb of the left hand, the cards on the top of this packet.
2nd. With the four fingers of the same hand, the bottom card of the same packet.
3rd. With the thumb of the left hand, the upper card, and so on, to the end of the packet.
To be certain that you are doing it all right, you have only to look at the last card, which ought to be a ten.