The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

HE .NVh FshMpto 1tttf to do their playing on the two hands, according to the side of the table where they sit.
 The game can be played with one or more packs of cards, usually in gaming with four packs or five packs, to make the art of shutlling easier.
 The cards arc shuffied and cut by as many players as may choose to shuttle them. The dealer may at his option say: ''I will throw off three. or four, or six cards before opening the deal" ," and he may if he wishes place these rejected cards face upward on the table. These are dead cards, and do not affect the game at all
 Before the cards are dealt the play CTS make their bets by placing their money or chips well out upon the table, where the banker can see them Then the dealer begins.
 The object of the game is to secure nine, which is game This nine is secured by counting the spots on the spot cards. If the hand you hold, and only one card may constitute your hand, counts more than nine spots, you only can be credited with what spots you <an count over ten. A ten  carat A face or picture card counts for nothing. Aces count one spot-nine spots is game If you hold two cards with spots-say one d five and the other six--and a picture card. the latter counts for nothing, ten of the spots on the other cards make baccarat and you have but one spot.
 In dealing, one or three cards consti- tute hand, all depending on the luck of the player in getting good card at the first time, or whether his judgment makes him ask for another and a third
 When the dealer begins, he gives first one card to the player at his left, then one card to the player at his right. The third card he gives to himself. If either of the two players secures an eight spot or . nine spot, these spots are called ''naturals," he immediately throws it face up on the table, He needs no more cards, because, unless good fortune strikes the dealer and the latter should get an eight spot to tie. or nine spot to tie or win. he will have to pay the player according so the amount of money or chips that he had up. He will have to pay also all the players on the winning side who had up their money. If one side wins and another loses, the banker pays the one and collects for the other.
 After the first round the dealer then deals his card, or cards, to the player sitting next to the one nearest him left and right, and all those on their re- spective sides bet on the new players hands This system is kept up until the banker has dealt hand and had q play with all sitting at the board.
 As was stated. the object of the game is for players and banker to strive to get the point of nine. If the right hand players make seven by counting that many spots on the card or cards their player holds, the left-hand play CTS get five in the same way, and the banker can count six spots on his card or cards, then the bapk pays all the bets made by the right hand side players, and rakes in all the muneys and chips put up by the left hand side players. The bankers six was one point less than the players on the right, and he therefore lost to thcn, and they were one point in excess of what the other side had.
 The cards count thus: Ace, one; deuce, two; tray, three, and so on ac- cording to the spots. Ten counts ten, but a ten, like n picture card, has no value in the game.