The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-04-10

al, as you just now saw, but the
queen of of spades. Hayseeds eye
will follow the marked card instinct.
lively when / pick them up to shuttle
them when he has made another wa.
ger. He can't help it. Try it your.
self and see. It's human nature, and
human nature gets left every time
when it strikes bunko. The beauty
of the whole scheme is that it all
seems so perfectly fair and square,
worked right before the fellows
blooming eyes"
Don't you ever induce country
men to play poker ?" asked the repor'
ter.
"Peker? Poker may be good
enough for fool up 10 Poughkeepsie,
but bnnko card playing can double
discount poker as a skin game. 1t
don't produce such a glaring, clear.
as-dayIight.give-away as four aces, q
king full and a straight flush. king
high, dealt in single hand. oh,
no! We have too much respect for
even greeuhorn's common sense to
expect him to believe that such a
thing could happen by mere chance.
We give him credit for some insight,
and consequently We ring in a game
on him that gives tie marked cards
some show to be played without being
detected"
What's the game you speak of p
"Euchre. All! l see you're rather
surprised. And I'm not surprised
you're surprised. But, take my word
for it, even so simple and apparently
honest a household game as euchre
can be made more effective than poker
with
MARKED CARDS
and little change in the number o.
pasteboards used In the game. Just
look at this pack. Nothing peculiar
about it, you say. Well, you're mis-
taken. You see, for example. that
instead of being cut perfectly straight
along the edges, the cards are cut like
a wedge, tapering slightly at one end.
Half the pack is cut with the bottom
of the cards narrower than the top.
and the other half with the tops mar
rover than the bottoms. Observe the
effect when / draw the pack through
my hand to separate the cards. Pres.
to! / have ali the clubs and spades
in one hand, and all the hearts and
diamonde in the other. This is one
advantage gained, the possession of
which is highly valuable to a player.
Now examine the backs of the paste.
boards. You can't see anything, You
say. No, of course you can't. But
if 1 point out to you a pencil dot here
on this ace of spades, and another dot
on another space on this queen of
clubs, and, so on through the pack,
show you dots in all kinds of positions,
YOU will doubtless tumble to the fact
it means something. Well, it does
have a pretty big meaning. 1t is
that can tell the denomination of
every card in the pack by simply
glancing at the dots on the back. and
by cutting the cards / can get at the
seemingly unascertainable fact wheth-
er a card is diamond, spade,a club
or heart. Thus armed, get my dear
friend Hayseed to play me 'sevens and
eights'-that is to say, euchre with the
seven and eight spots added. Savoy p
"Yes, l understand, but how is it
played"
"Well, again for the sake of illus
tration we will suppose that you are
Hayseed from the country. Well.
having been greeted by the handsha-
ker and given away your name, and
having then been recognized by my
self as steerer, you find yourself in the
bunko Joint. While l am waiting for
the packages, which you have prom
ised to take up to Mr.. Bank President
Smith, of your native town, l propose
a game of euchre. You play at home
with the folks, you know, and readily
agree to engage in game. All right.
| call for a pack Of cards, and receive
this pack from the bartender. l shut.
fle them a moment, and then iDsinuat-
ingly suggest, by the way, Zeke,' ia
miliarly abbreviating your front name,
you observe-'By the way, Zeke. sup
pose We play the game New York
style"
"What is that?'
"You just take out the joker and
add the seven and eight spot cards to
the euchre deck, The matter is not
clear to you yet, and you naturally
inquire why eight cards should be ad-
ded. l give you more soft soap in
reply. Oh / assert. "that is done
because the joker is a big card to hold,
90 xko~nfnrn VIA mob q l.