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the trick, and card below loads next round. 

 REMARKS, INFEREXCES, ic- 



A properly leads the pouulti- 



mato card of his long suit. B, 



iiMrssincr according to rule, and 



^ ilooking the fact that the case 



I 'iiga to the exception, deliber- 

 K- throws away the game. 



-. Z leads Q, "from Q, Kn, 10, 

 Y trumps, folloiving Clay's 



: not to pass a certain trick 

 ...Ivss you see your way to 

 making three by refraining. B 

 begins to signal now that he has 

 tliro^m away tlie game. 



3 and i. Y and Z begin to take 

 their tricks in Diamonds, B signal- 

 ling violently in a new suit. 



5. Z properly forces his partner 

 instead of leading a Diamond. B 

 completes his signal in Hearts, 

 naturally. 



C and 7. Y having made his 

 Diamond Qneen, leads a Club, as 

 very likely to give Z a ruff. For 

 V had five Clubs originally, and A 

 having led, has four at least. 

 With trick 7 the game is won, 

 whatever honours B may hold, for 

 the Ace of trumps will make the 

 necessaiy eighth trick. For the 

 sake of symmetry we give the re- 

 maining rounds as they would 

 probably have been played did the 

 rules of ^Vhist require that all 

 thirteen rounds should be played. 



This game illustrates forcibly 

 the necessity of playing to the 

 score. Had B played his Ace of 

 Clubs first round, of course the 

 game was won, as he held.two by 

 honours in his own hand, and five 

 more tricks certain. 



Forcing the Adversary. — Tlie 

 various ways men take to loose 

 games are truly wonderful. We 

 were looking on at Wliist, a short 

 time since, when we noted the 

 following: — A, original leader, 

 leads trumps (Clubs), Z, fourth 

 yer, wins the trick and leads 

 •arts. A has no Hearts, and 

 cards a Spade. X wins the 

 ■k ivith the Heart King. He 

 ! now two trumps left, four good 

 Diamonds with King, Knave; three 

 arts with the Ace and two small 

 Spades. Ho led a small Diamond. 

 Wc do not care so much about the 

 Diamond, although, to ordinary 

 mortals it would apjiear that by 

 leading the Diamond, X was lead- 

 ing U]) to A's declared strength. 

 A lessor light would liavo said to 

 limself, " If, as I assume, A'a 

 strength is in trumps and Dia- 

 monds, at any rate I can take care 

 of the Diamonds." After the 

 game was out, we mildly suggested that tlio Ace of Hearts would 

 have been a strong card to lead, and wo received the reply : " Yea, 

 to have it trumped, I suppose, Mr. Clever." X, who in his own 

 estimation is a verj- good player, thought the suggestion of leading 

 the Ace to have it trumped a joke, or the wild invention of a 

 lunatic. Yet we think that the Ace was a very good card to lend. 

 Had A ever heard that a player is never too weak to force tlie 

 strong hand? A' lost the game by not forcing his adversary at the 

 proper time, but X docs not know that ho lost the game, nor will he 

 ever know it or believe it. The next hand X was punished, for ho 

 had one of the prettiest hands wc ever saw. With Ace, King, 

 Knave, and another trump, a hand full of court cards, but with two 

 Hearts, the first force was got on X, and four long Hearts were 



got in against him. X certainly looked astonished, and wo think ho 

 was, but whether he will ever believe that a force is of use or not 

 we cannot tell. This we do know, lie will never lead the Ace of 

 Hearts to be trumped. — Westminster Papers. 



Ax.VAMESE SfPERSTiTio.NS.— Consul Trcmlett, in his trade report 

 on Saigon and Cochin China for the past year, gives an interesting 

 account of gome of the superstitions which prevail in Annam. It is 

 bad luck for a fish to leap on board a boat j the fish must be cut in 

 two and thrown into the water again, half on either side. The 

 capture of a porpoise is a very bad omen, for lie is the messenger of 

 infernal gods. The cries of a " Gecko," if odd, are lucky; if even, 

 the reverse. A bird crying at night is always bad — a presage of 

 death, in fact. This, says Consul Tremlett, is infelicitous ; for some 

 birds of the country only cry at night and all night. The squeak of 

 a musk rat announces visits. A cock crowing at noon foretells 

 that the daughters of the house will not turn out well. The tiger 

 is, of course, much dreaded, and the mention of him is interdicted 

 in some districts. Sacrifices of pigs are made at least yearly, with 

 a riorum. >nf attached, which is, or should be, exchanged by the 



'" ■ ' ! ! sent him the previous year; if the tiger omits 



t I I okout for the village. However, it is all an affair 



I I I I -r ill, so it does not matter much. The water-buffalo 

 i.-, ai. uiiayumrv uniraal living in rivers and only coming on shore at 

 night; lor all that, he is patent enough in the di.strict, and un- 

 comfortably curious towards Europeans. The Annamese have 

 several kinds of talking-birds — commonly a starling or a raven, 

 who looks after the property while the master is absent, and 

 recounts what has passed when he returns. To meet a serpent in 

 the road is a very bad omen, and whatever business is then in hand 

 must be renounced. As for ghosts and spirits, they abound in 

 Annam — always, everywhere, and of all descriptions. 



Contents of Knowledge Ko. 38. 



Our National Game 123 



Found Links. By Br. Andrew 



Wilson, F.H.S.E., F.L.S 124 



Stimulants and Study. By the 



Editor ■ 125 



How to Get Strong 125 



Photography for Amateurs. Part 



XI. By A. Brothers, F.H.A.S. ... 128 



Fairy Rinsrs 127 



Thought-reading. By the Editor... 13S 

 Mathematics and Science. By the 



Edit. 



129 



Electromania. Part II. Bv W. 



Mattieu Williams : 139 



French Excavations in Assyria 130 



Weather Diagram for the Week 131 



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Answers to Correspondenta 13i 



Science and .\rt Gossip 135 



Our Mathematical Column 138 



Our Whist Column 137 



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