Chapter I: Front Matter

FRONTISPIECE.

"Lastly, observe the Women with what grace
They sit, and look their Partners in the face,
Who from their eyes shoot Cupids fiery darts;
Thus make them lose at once their Game and Hearts."]

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| THE |
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| LAWS AND PRINCIPLES |
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| OF |
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| WHIST |
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| STATED AND EXPLAINED |
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| AND ITS |
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| PRACTICE ILLUSTRATED |
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| ON |
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| AN ORIGINAL SYSTEM |
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| BY MEANS OF |
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| HANDS PLAYED COMPLETELY THROUGH. |
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| BY |
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| "CAVENDISH." |
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| EIGHTEENTH EDITION. |
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| LONDON: THOS. DE LA RUE & CO. |
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| 1889. |
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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]

PRINTED BY

THOMAS DE LA RUE AND CO., BUNHILL ROW,

LONDON.

DEDICATION TO THE NINTH EDITION.

JAMES CLAY, ESQ., M.P.

(Chairman of the Whist Laws Committee of the Arlington Club, 1864,)

This Book

IS

CORDIALLY DEDICATED

BY

HIS SINCERE FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.

DEDICATION TO THE TENTH EDITION.

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| To the memory |
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| OF |
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| JAMES CLAY |
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