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times, the person who has most pledges to redeem 
gives, at the conclusion of the game a ball or supper. 
The progress of the game furnishes occasion for 
many a sly trick ; one of the parties secretly stealing 
the other's leaf, and then demanding proof that he 
has it ; and sometimes also it is purposely dropped, 
when the penalty to be paid is not too severe. 
