The Glenwood post., 1918-05-25
Preparing the "Chow."

1e "ChoW"
scnooi. lne packers OF the game ue-
duct two francs for their trouble and
the winner gets eight francs.
Then the game starts. Each buyer
places his card before him on the ta-
BILE, first breaking up matches into fif-
teen pieces.
One of the hackers of the game has
a small cloth bag in which are ninety
cardboard squares, each with num-
ber printed thereon, from one to nine
ty. He raps on the table and cries
out: Eyes down, my lucky lads"
All noise ceases and every one is at
tention.
The croupler places his hand in the
bag and draws forth numbered
square and Immediately calls out the
number The man who owns the card
covers the square with a match. The
one who covers the fifteen numbers on
his card first shouts House" The
other hacker Immediately comes over
to him and verifies the card by calling
out the numbers thereon to the man
with the bag. AS each number is
called he picks 1t out Of the ones
picked from the bag and says, Fright"
If the count is right he shouts, "House
correct, pay the lucky gentleman, and
sell him Il card for the next school,"
The ''lucky gentleman" generally buys
one unless he has miser trace in
his veins.
Then another collection is made, a
school formed, and they carry on with
4 the game.
The caller-out has many nicknames
for the numbers such as "Kelly's Eye
for one, Legs Eleven" for eleven,
'Clickety-click" for siNty-six, or 'Top
of the house, meant ninety.
The game is honest and quite en-
joyable. Sometimes you have fourteen
numbers on your card covered and
you are waiting for the fifteenth to be
called. In an imploring voice you call
out, "Come on, Watkins, chum, I'm
sweating on 'Kelly's Eye"
Watkins generally replies, swell.
keep out Of draft, you'll catch cold"
Another game is "Pontoon," played
with cards; it is the same as our
BLACK jack" or "Twenty-one."
A card game called "Brag" Is also
! popular. Using casino deck, the
dealer deals each player three cards.
/ 1t is similar to our poker, except for
the fact that you only use three cards
and cannot draw. The deck is never
shutfied until man shows three of
kind or ''prile" as it is called. The
value of the hands are, high card, q
pair, run, flush or three of a kind
or "prlle." The limit Is generally a
penny, so it is hard to win fortune.
The next in popularity is a card
game called MAP" 1t is we'll named.
Every time played it l went to sleep,
! Whist and solo whist are played by
the highhrows of the company.
When the gamblers tire Of all Other
games they try Banker and Broker"
spent week trying to teach some
of the Tommies how to play poker, but
because won thirty-five francs they
declared that they didn't "fawncy" the
game.
Tommy plays few card games; the
general run never heard Of poker, eu-
chre. sever up, or pinochle. They have
game similar to pinochle called
'Royal Bezique," but few know how to
play 1t.
Generally there are two decks Of
cards in section, and in short time
they are so dog-eared and greasy, you
can hardly tell the ace of spades from
the ace of hearts. The owners of these
decks sometimes condescend to lend
them after much cOaxing.
So you see, MIR. Atkins has his fun
mixed in with his hardships and, con-
trary to popular belief, the rank and
file Of the British army in the trenches
is one big happy family. Now in Wiz
Rinia. ut school. ! was fed on old 9e.