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one exactly gains two, or comes nearest 

 under it gains one. Here too, in playing 

 of the cards, you may make pairs, pairs- 

 royal, flushes, &c. which are all counted 

 as above. 



As to the crib, it is the dealer's, who 

 may make as many as he can out of them, 

 together with the card turned up ; count- 

 ing as above : if he can make none, he is 

 said to be bilked. 



Thus they play and deal by turns, till 

 the game of sixty -one is up ; and if either 

 of the gamesters reach this before the 

 other is forty-five, this last is said to be 

 lurched, and the other gains a double 

 game. 



CRIBRARIA, in botany, a genus of the 

 Cryptogamia Fungi : case furnished with 

 a double membrane, the outer one thin 

 and fugacious, inner one reticulate ; seeds 

 without filaments, ejected through the 

 foramina. One species, viz. the pallida. 



CRICKET, the name of an exercise or 

 game with bats and balls. The laws of 

 this game, as settled by the cricket club 

 in 1744, and played at the Artillery 

 Ground, London, are as follow. The pitch- 

 ing the first wicket is to be determined 

 by the cast of a piece of money. When the 

 first wicket is pitched, and the popping- 

 crease cut, which must be exactly three 

 feet ten inches from the wicket, the other 

 wicket is to be pitched directly opposite, 

 at twenty-two yards distance, and the 

 oilier popping-crease cut three feet ten 

 inches before it. The bowling-creases 

 must be cut in a direct line from each 

 stump. The stumps must be twenty- two 

 inches long, and the bail six inches. The 

 ball must weigh between five and six 

 ounces. When the wickets are both pitch- 

 ed, and all the creases cut, the party that 

 wins the toss up may order which side 

 shall go in first, at his option. 



The laws for the bowlers. Four balls and 

 over. The bowler must deliver the ball 

 with one foot behind the crease even with 

 the wicket, and when he has bowled one 

 ball, or more, shall bowl to the number 

 four before he changes wickets; and he 

 shall change but once in the same innings. 

 He may order the player that is in at his 

 wicket to stand on which side of it he 

 pleases, at a reasonable distance If he de- 

 livers the ball with his hinder foot over the 

 bowling-crease, the umpire shall call no 

 ball, though she be struck, or the player 

 is bowled out, which he shall do without 

 being asked, and no person shall have 

 any right to ask him. 



JjCca&foT the strikers, or those that are in. 

 If the wicket is bowled down, it is out. 



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If he strikes or treads down, or he full 

 himself upon the wicket in striking, but 

 not in over-running, it is out. A stroke 

 or nip over or under his bat, or upon his 

 hands, but not arms, if the ball be held 

 before she touches ground, though she 

 be hugged to the body, it is out. If in strik- 

 ing, both his feet are over the popping- 

 crease, and his wicket put down, except 

 his bat is down within, it is out. If he runs 

 out of his ground to hinder a catch, it is 

 out. If a ball is nipped up, and he strikes 

 her again wilfully before she come to the 

 wicket, it isout. If the players have cross- 

 ed each other, he that runs for the wicket 

 that is put down is out: if they are not 

 crossed, he that returns is out. "if i n run- 

 ning a notch, the wicket is struck down 

 by a throw before his foot, hand, or bat, is 

 over the popping-crease, or u stump hit 

 by the ball, though the ball was down, it 

 is out. But if the bail is down before, he 

 that catches the ball must strike a stump 

 out of the ground-ball in hand, then it is 

 out. If the striker touches or takes up 

 the ball before she is lain quite still, un- 

 less asked by the bowler or wicket-keep- 

 er, it is out. 



J3at,foot, or hand over the crease. When 

 the ball has been in hand by one of the 

 keepers or stoppers, and the player has 

 been at home, he may go where he pleases 

 till the next ball is bowled. If either of the 

 strikers is crossed in his running ground 

 designedly, which design must be deter- 

 mined by the umpires, the umpires may 

 order that notch to be scored. When the 

 ball is hit up, either of the strikers may 

 hinder the catch in his running ground, 

 or if she is hit directly across the wickets, 

 the other player may place his body any 

 where within the swing of the bat, soa's 

 to hinder the bowler from catching her: 

 but he must neither strike at her, nor 

 touch her with his hands. If a striker 

 nips a ball up just before him, he may 

 fall before his wicket, or pop down his 

 but before she comes to it, to save it. The 

 bail hanging on one stump, though the 

 ball hit the wicket, it is not out. 



Laws for the icicket-kcepers. The 

 wicket-keeper shall stand at i reasonable 

 distance behhvl the wicket, and shall not 

 move till the ball is out of the bowler's 

 hand, and shall not by any noise incom- 

 mode the striker; and if his hands, knees, 

 foot, or head, be overor before the wicket, 

 though the ball hit it, it shall not be out. 



JMIVS for the umpires. To allow two 

 minutes for each man to come in when 

 one is out, and ten minutes between 

 each hand. To mark the ball, that it may 



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