Whist or Bumblepuppy

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Author

Hewby, John Petch, 1835-1896

Title

Whist; or, Bumblepuppy? Thirteen Lectures Addressed to Children

Credits

E-text prepared by Emmy, MFR, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images digitized by the Google Books Library Project ( books.google.com and generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

GV: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure

Subject

Whist

Category

Text

eBook-No.

54135

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54135

Release Date

February 8, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.WHIST OR BUMBLEPUPPY
2. 2.WHIST; OR BUMBLEPUPPY?
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.PREFACE.
5. 5.LECTURE I. —— INTRODUCTORY. —— — Notes on some of the Laws.
6. 6.LECTURE II. —— THE LEAD. ——
7. 7.LECTURE III. —— THE PLAY OF THE SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH HAND. ——
8. 8.LECTURE IV. —— DISCARDING, AND ITS DIFFICULTIES. —— — The Principles of Discarding. — Resumption of Note C , page 36 . — Playing for Amusement.
9. 9.LECTURE V. —— THE DISCARD FROM THE STRONGEST SUIT. —— — Part I. — Part II.
10. 10.LECTURE VI. —— THE ELEVEN RULE ( by desire ). ——
11. 11.LECTURE VII. —— THE PETER AND ITS PECULIARITIES. ——
12. 12.LECTURE VIII. —— FALSE CARDS, LOGIC, LUCK. ——
13. 13.LECTURE IX. —— WHIST AS AN INVESTMENT. ——
14. 14.LECTURE X. —— ON THINGS IN GENERAL. ——
15. 15.LECTURE XI. —— THINKING. ——
16. 16.LECTURE XII. —— TEMPER. ——
17. 17.LECTURE XIII. —— DETERIORATION OF WHIST, ITS CAUSES AND CURE. —— — SPECIMEN OF BUMBLEPUPPY IN EXCELSIS. — THE DOMESTIC RUBBER. — DOUBLE DUMMY.
18. 18.EPILOGUE I. ——
19. 19.EPILOGUE II. —— — FOOTNOTES:

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