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preceding, except for slight variations in tlie association of the names 

 of the chessmen on the dotted pieces. He offers it in explanation of 

 the number, 32, of the domino game, and says that it could only have 

 been made to save space while traveling. As in the preceding, the 32 

 dominoes do correspond, piece for piece, with the 32 men in the Chinese 

 game of chess. It is clear that the devices on some, at least, of the other 

 decorated dominoes were copied from playing cards, those on the set A 

 being identical in number as well as in devices with a set of the dotted 

 cards from Fuhchau in the same collection, while the set B has the 

 names of the familiar suit marks, j>iH$r, sole, and man, of the cards; 

 hence it is possible that the "chess dominoes" were imitated from the 

 corresponding "chess cards," and that the true explanation of the 

 number of the domino pieces must be found elsewhere. 



Mr. W. H. Wilkinson also exhibited at the Columbian Exposition a 

 set of dominoes from Wenchow, called hua tang chiu, " flowery tang 

 »chiu." They consist of 5 suits of 21 pieces each and 17 extra pieces 

 (total, 122) and 4 blanks. The extra pieces are (1) G-O 6-3, (2) 1-1 1-3, 

 (3^ 4_4 1-3, (4) 2-4 4-4, (5) 3-3 5-6, (6) 1-2 2-2, (7) 1-2 2-4, (8) 4-5 5-5, 

 (9), (10), (11) 3 pieces marked with the sequence 1-6 — that is, 1-4 2-6 

 3-5 ; 1-6 2-5 3-4; 1-5 2-3 4-6, and 6 pieces bearing the characters 

 {a) wen, "civilian;" {b) wu, "military;" (c) tsung, "universal;" (^)t'ai, 

 " highness;" {e) ho, " lily;" (/) p'ei, " heap up." " The blanks are used 

 only to replace cards lost." The material was wood, stained black, 

 with incised spots, painted white and red. " The coloring of the cards 

 is immaterial." They measured 1 by f| by -^g inch, and the inner face 

 was slightly concave, like the dominoes from Fuhchau, mentioned on 

 page 518.* 



CH'IU p'ai. 



Another form of Chinese dominoes remains to be described which are 

 current at Tientsin. There are the ch^iii p^di, "leaping dominoes," t 

 which consist of 32 slips of bamboo about 14 inches in length, with the 

 domino spots marked at one end, contained in a cylindrical bamboo box. 

 This game is carried on by cake, candy, and fruit sellers. The player 

 draws 3 of the bamboo slips, and if the 3 marks form what is described 

 under the following account of Korean dominoes, pages 523, 524, as yat 

 p'ai, "perfect tablets," the player wins; if not he loses. 



KOREAN DOMINOES. 



A set of Korean dominoes from Seoul (pi. 9) in the National 

 Museum is made of ivory and numbers 32 pieces. They measure f by 

 T^g by tV inches, and are marked with incised spots arranged according 

 to the Chinese system. The "one" and "four" spots are painted red 

 and all the others black, and the " one" spots are much larger than the 

 others and very deeply incised. 



* Cf. Descriptive Catalogue, p. 88. 



t There is a set from Fiilicliau iu tlie museum of tlie Long Island Historical Society. 



