Excerpt from American Whist Illustrated: Containing the Laws and Principles of the Game, the Analysis of the New Plays and American Leads, and a Series of Hands in Diagram and Combining Whist Universal and American Whist

To read this language, to thwart the thus ex pressed purpose of antagonists, to advance his own forces in conformity with most orderly tac tics and ingenious strategy, and to assist the plans of his partner determined on victory, is the business of the model Whist-player, and it calls into action, in a remarkable manner, his ascendency of memory, judgment, and Skill.

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