PLAYING BY SIGNS.
This is done perhaps in this game more than at whist, as it is done
when cheats are playing in open partnership at a four-handed game, or
when they are playing in secret partnership at a three, four, five, or
six-handed game. By signs they tell one another what they have in their
hands, when to beg, and when to stand, and what to play ; all this can
be done, and they will defy an old gamester to detect them, as their
signs have no appearance of being designed as such ; so that the nicest
observer would always fail to get any ocular evidence that they were
playing by signs.
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