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The gaming table : its votaries and victims, in all times and countries, especially in England and in France. Vol. 2

  
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THE GAMING TABLE.
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CHEVALIERS D'INDUSTRIE, OR POLITE SHARPERS.
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PROFESSIONAL GAMESTERS AND THEIR FRAUDS.
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ANECDOTES OF THE PASSIONS AND VICISSITUDES OF GAMESTERS.
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ATROCITIES, DUELS, SUICIDES, AND EXECUTION OF GAMBLERS.
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ODDITIES AND WITTICISMS OF GAMBLERS.
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THE GAMING CLUBS.
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DOINGS IN GAMING HOUSES.
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THE DOCTRINE OF PROBABILITIES APPLIED TO GAMBLING.
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THE HISTORY OF DICE AND CARDS.
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PIQUET, BASSET, FARO, HAZARD, PASSE-DIX, PUT, CROSS AND PILE, THIMBLE-RIG.
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COCK-FIGHTING.
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THE TURF, HISTORICAL, SOCIAL, MORAL.
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FORTUNE-TELLING BY CARDS (FOR LADIES).
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AMUSING CARD TRICKS.[86]
  
PRELIMINARY HINTS.
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TRICKS.
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2. The four inseparable kings.
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3. The barmaid and the three victimizers.
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4. How to name every card in a pack successively turned up by a second party, and win every trick at a hand of Whist.
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5. Two persons having each drawn a card and replaced them in the pack, to guess these cards.
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6. Twenty cards being arranged upon a table, a person thinks of two, and you undertake to guess them.
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7. To tell a card thought of without even looking at the cards.
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8. A person having thought of one of fifteen cards pre-sented to him, to guess the card thought of.
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9. Two persons having each drawn a card from a pack, and having replaced them, to tell these cards after the pack has been shuffled and cut by the spectators as often as they like.
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10. Singular arrangement of sixteen cards.
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11. The seven trick.
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12. Infallible method for guessing any number that a party has thought of.
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13. The card that cannot be found.
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14. Cards being drawn from a pack, to get them guessed by a person blindfolded.
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15. The mystery of double sight.
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16. Guessing.
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17. The Arithmetical Puzzle.
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18. To get a card into a pack firmly held by a party.

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2. The four inseparable kings.

Take four kings. Beneath the last place any two cards, which you take care to conceal. Then show the four kings and replace the six cards under the pack.

Then take a king and place it in the top of the pack, place one of the two other cards in the middle, and the other about the same place, and then, turning up the pack, show that one king is still at the bottom. Then let the cards be cut, and as three kings were left below, all must necessarily get

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together somewhere about the middle of the pack. Of course in placing the two other cards you pretend to be placing two kings.

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