TURNING JACKS EVERY DEAL
This is a gross deception, accomplished by stocking and dealing from
the cut. Tricksters do it as follows: they will take a jack of a suit,
and place three good cards of that suit upon it, and then three low
cards of some other suit, on these again; they will then keep these
cards on the top, and not alter them while shuffling. They are then cut
by the other party, and the cut lies on the table until they have dealt
and turned a trump; which they carelessly throw on the cut, and then
lay down the pack and look at their hands. Now, if you beg, he picks up
the cut that has the trump on it, and deals from it, and gives his
opponent the three low cards, and himself the three high cards, and
turns the jack. The opponent not bearing in mind that the trump was
placed on the cut, the deception passes undetected.
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