COMING THE CHANGE.
The dealer will have the stocked pack lying privately in his lap, and
when the cards they will be using have been cut, and are ready to be
dealt, the dealer slips his left hand up to the under edge of the
table, as if to receive the pack which is on the table, and which, at
the same time, he is drawing to him with his right hand, as if to place
it in his left, in which he would hold it to deal from ; but in reality
he carries his right hand down into his lap, and lodges its contents
there, and brings up his left hand over the table, and commences
dealing from the stocked pack, while some of his secret partners, who
are seated about in the same room, will privately take the pack out of
his lap, and convey it away, that there may be no means of detecting
the fraud by the discovery of two packs. This fraud is put in practice
when bets run high, and there is a probability of winning a large wager.
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