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FOSTER'S RUSSIAN BANK

quently overlooked. The play upon the opponent's discard or stock is optional.

After making whatever plays he wishes, either by moving cards in the tableau, or otherwise, he turns up the top card of his stock, and continues to turn up, one at a time, from his stock, as long as he can play. When he reaches a card that he either cannot or will not play, if there is no space open for that card, he turns up the top card from the thirty-six on his left, which constitute his hand, and continues to play by turning up cards one at a time, until he is stopped. The last card from his hand must either be played, or laid out as the first of his discard pile.

It is hardly necessary to say that if the cards turned up from the hand, or the shifts made in the tableau,