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Professional Gamesters And Their Frauds

'Now, to cut the cards, a BEND is prepared for you to cut to--
the middle is the best; and it is odds but you unwarily cut to
it; if not, SLIP is the word; but if you have no opportunity to
do that neither, then deal away at all hazards, it is but an
equal bet that they come in your favour; if right, proceed; if
otherwise, miss a card in its course, and it brings the cards
according to your first design; it is but giving two at last
where you missed; and if that cannot be conveniently done, you
only lose the deal, and there is an end of it.

'But when A or B is to cut, they make it all safe; for then they
make the CORNER-BEND, which any one that knows may cut to, a
hundred times together.

'Piping at Whist. By piping I mean, when one of the company that
does not play, which frequently happens, sits down in a
convenient place to smoke a pipe, and so look on, pretending to
amuse himself that way. Now, the disposing of his fingers on the
pipe whilst smoking discovers the principal cards that are in the
person's hand he overlooks; which was always esteemed a
sufficient advantage whereby to win a game. There is another
method, namely, by uttering words. "Indeed" signifies diamonds;
"truly," hearts; "upon my word," clubs; "I assure you," spades.
But as soon as these methods become known, new ones are invented;
and it is most curious that two persons may discover to each
other what sort of cards they have in hand, and which ought first
to be played, many different ways, without speaking a word.'

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