68 THE GAME OF CHAP-JI-KL 
table, the manager by word of mouth announces the name of the 
card she has selected and declares it to be the winning card for 
the occasion. The hongs are then opened and the cards (or the 
symbols standing for them), compared : the winning packets are 
put in one heap and the losing packets in another. Ten dollars — 
are paid to winners in return for every dollar staked. Each 
collector settles with the manager in turn; $1 being paid by 
the staker to the collector for every ten dollars won. Before 
the police began to hustle and drive these private lottery 
card parties, the manager or her husband used to carry the 
‘ Bann” to the place fixed on for declaring the lottery. The 
money in notes and silver would be done up neatly in paper and 
put in a small tiffin basket, ladies’ satchel, or needlework box 
ready foruse. After several prosecutions, however, this practice 
was given up, and the managers took to paying all the winnings 
they could with the money actually brought to the meeting as 
stakes and settled any balance due afterwards, with the 
collectors’ in their husbands, shops. Finally the company breaks 
up and goes home one by one, so as not to attract notice. 
Special rickshaw coolies and gharry wallahs were engaged by 
the collectors to take them about. The manager usually em- 
ployed a private carriage. 
The lotteries were usually opened once or twice a day, once 
at about mid-day, and once at 8.30 p.m., or 9.30 p.m., 
In some of the lotteries, the Amount of each ‘stake was | 
limited to $25 or $50, in other that would be staked was un- 
limited. 
The manager has always one or two partners amongst the’ 
collectors. On each occasion a lottery is held these partners 
are told beforehand where the next place of meeting will be ; the 
other collectors then go next day to the residence of the ladies _ 
in partnership with the manager and find out where they are 
all to assemble for the day’s gambling. Sometimes when the 
police are particularly active the manager will not even tell the 
partners where the lottery is to be opened. She merely tells 
the collectors to meet at one of her partner’s houses. In such 
cases the manager later on will go to the place where all the 
collectors have slowly assembled, and call in on the way and 
tell them to follow in small groups to such and such a place. 
The manager then leads the way to the place selected. One 
