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PREFACE
for a single game with two packs. The new game also has the advantage that it is always finished, such a thing as a drawn game being impossible.
It may be imagined that by reducing the cards to one-half the usual number, the game might be so simplified that it would lose interest; but if the reader will study the illustrative hand given in connection with the description, it will readily be seen that the game with one pack is not so simple that it loses its attraction as an intellectual pastime.
R. F. Foster.
532 Monroe St.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
