according to the rules of the game; for if the pieces in contact with the one which you covet happen to move in the slightest degree, you are obliged to resign your turn to your adversary, and this continues on both sides till all the pieces are taken.
The young people easily comprehended the instructions of Madame D’Hernilly, and soon became proficients in the game; they reckoned the king for fifty, the queen forty, the knave thirty, the horse twenty, and each plain fish for ten. The player who contrives to get together the greatest number of points, wins the game.
In every time, at ev’ry age,
By grave and gay, by fool and sage,
Or more or less, we’re sure to see
The love of dear variety.
The Cup-and-Ball thrown to and fro
The pious game of Domino[2]
Amuse by turns, with various games
Of other shapes and other names,