Vol. II, No. 4.] Notes on “ Pachest,” etc. 127 
[N.S.] 
Each player plays for his own hand alone, and the game is decided 
by the number of tricks scored. 
‘ Points,” I presume, are settled by mutual agreement before 
commencing to play. 
I asked my informant what was the penalty for a revoke. 
He did not understand this at first, but when a pack of cards was. 
roduced, I showed him how, quite by accident, of course, such a 
thing might happen 
Heh evidently not given the subject much thought and was 
not at first aware of the advantage which might be gained by such 
an accident. 
When this was brought home to him, he remarked that, if 
see %5 —_— were “detected ” that trick would not be allowed to 
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