LECTURE IV.
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DISCARDING, AND ITS DIFFICULTIES.
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“This the vain purpose of his life to try,
Still to explore what still eludes his eye.”
Discards are of two distinct kinds:—
- (1) Ordinary.
- (2) Forced.
(1) When your partner; (2) When your adversary shows strength.
In the first case, you naturally point out to your partner which is your strong suit by discarding from your weak suits, your object being to win the game, and there is an end of that matter.[19] In the second case it is just the reverse. You have to save the game, and you discard from your best guarded suit, by no means necessarily your strongest, with a view, as far as you can, of blocking every suit, and so preventing the adversary from establishing his long cards.