Younger Hand.—The player to the right of the dealer.
The following rules have frequently proved very valuable to beginners; we think, therefore, our own young readers who are at all ambitious to excel in Whist may as well have the benefit of them.
BOB SHORT'S RULES.
FOR FIRST HAND, OR LEAD.
1.—Lead from your strong suit, and be cautious how you change suits, and keep a commanding card to bring it in again.
2.—Lead through the strong suit and up to the weak, but not in trumps, unless very strong in them.
3.—Lead the highest of a sequence; but if you have a quart or quint to a king, lead the lowest.
4.—Lead through an honour, particularly if the game be much against you.
5.—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.
6.—Lead a trump if you have four or five or a strong hand, but not if weak.