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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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10. Singular arrangement of sixteen cards.

Take the four kings, the four queens, the four knaves, and the four tens of a pack, and ask if there be any one in the company who can form a square with them in such a manner that, taken in any direction, from right to left, from the top to

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the bottom, by the diagonal — anyhow, in fact — there will always be in each line a king, queen, knave, and a ten. Everybody will think the thing easy, but it is certain that no one will succeed in doing it. When they `give it up,' take the sixteen cards and arrange
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Fig. 6.

 them as shown in fig. 6, when the king, queen, knave, and ten will stand as required.

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