STOCKING.
Stocking is practised more, perhaps, in all-fours than in whist, as it
is more easily done. As the cards are not shuffled as much, it renders
stocking far more easy and certain. The object of stocking, in this
game, is to get high, low, jack, and ten of a suit, and make that suit
trumps. By slipping, they are often stocked as follows: while gathering
the tricks that have been won, the player who intends to stock will put
three low cards on the top of three high cards; and, his deal coming
next, he keeps them at the top by deceptive shuffling, and places one
of the same suit as the high cards were of at the bottom, and then he
slips the cut. And, if he is playing two handed, he gets the second and
third, or, if four handed, his partner gets them, which is all the
same. And then, while dealing off the last card, he very adroitly turns
up the bottom card for trumps, and is not suspected, as it is very
common for the dealer at the last to deal off four cards, and let the
bottom one of that four fall face up for trumps. But instead of all
four coming from the top of the pack, the fourth one is from the
bottom. This trick, from its being so simple and easy to perform, is
often practised.
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