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Title: Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice
Author: W. H. Peel
Release Date: January 16, 2009 [eBook 27819]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROUND GAMES WITH CARDS***
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ROUND GAMES
by
BAXTER-WRAY.
ROUND GAMES WITH CARDS.
A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice.
by
BAXTER-WRAY.
1891 1897
CONTENTS.
NAP ... 3
LOO ... 16
POKER ... 31
VINGT-UN ... 59
COMMERCE ... 70
SPECULATION ... 77
POPE JOAN ... 80
SPIN ... 87
NEWMARKET ... 89
SNIP-SNAP-SNORUM ... 90
JIG ... 95
CASSINO ... 97
MY BIRD SINGS ... 101
SPOIL FIVE ... 103
LOTO ... 108
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"NAP," OR "NAPOLEON."
The game of Napoleon, or as it is more generally and popularl