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Title: Foster's whist manual
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Foster, R. F. (Robert Frederick), 1853-1945
Subjects: Whist
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.) Brentano's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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right to lead aKing m plain sttits. The face value of the smallcards is indifferent. Any card below a ten is simplya small card. Now, instead of committing these ten combina-tions to memory, let us examine them, and see if wecannot find some chara<5leristic which is common toall of them; so that by recalling that one charac-teristic we shall be able to remember all the tencombinations, and therefore all the King leads. If we examine them attentively we shall see thatin every instance the King is accompanied by thecard next to it in value; the Ace or the Queen;sometimes by both of them. Now, if the King is oftener led than any otherhigh card in Whist; if these are all the combina-tions of cards which a Whist player can possiblyhold from which it is correct to lead a King; andif this chara6leristic is common t<^ all these combi-nations, we have this rule: * Having selected your suit, see if it contains aKing; and if the King is accompanied by thecard next to it in value, lead it.
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10 TOSTERS whist MAXrAL. Let lis suppose that the same combinatiotiscontain only three or four cards each, as shownon the opposite page. Would the King still bethe correct lead ? Yes—because it is accompaniedby the card next to it in value. This will impress upon you that it is not thenumber of cards in the suit that determines theKing lead, but simply and only the presence of thecard next in value, Por Practice J take an ordiriar)^ pack of cards,throw out all below the eights, and after shufflingthe remaining 2S high cards, give yourself severalhands of 13 at a time. After sorting them, seeif you have the King in any of the suits, andask yourself, shall I lead it? This practice will train the eye to detect aKing lead at sight, and will relieve you from thenecessity of keeping the table waiting while youcudgel your brains to recall what it was that thebook said. The book you have read has nothingto do with the game )ou are playing. The cardsare held in the hand, the eye falls upon t

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