Lead from your strong suit, be cautious how you change suits, and
keep a commanding card to bring it in again.
Lead through the strong suit and up to the weak; but not in
trumps; unless very strong in them.
Lead the highest of a sequence; but if you have a quarte or
cinque to a king, lead the lowest.
Lead through an honour, particularly if the game is against you.
Lead your best trump, if the adversaries be eight, and you have
no honour; but not if you have four trumps, unless you have a
sequence.
Lead a trump if you have four or five, or a strong hand; but not
if weak.
Having ace, king, and two or three small cards, lead ace and
king if weak in trumps, but a small one if strong in them.
If you have the last trump, with some winning cards, and one
losing card only, lead the losing card.
Return your partner's lead, not the adversaries'; and if you
hold only three originally, play the best; but you need not return
it immediately, when you win with a king, queen, or knave, and have
only small ones, or when you hold a good sequence, a strong suit, or
five trumps.