Connecticut western news., 1918-05-30
"Clickety-clfck" for sIxty-six, or "Top
of the house" meaning ninety.

"Cickety-clfck" for sfxty-six, or "Top
of the house" meaning 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; 1t is the same as our
"Black jack" or "Twenty-one."
A card game called Drag" is also
popular. Using a 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
shuffied until man shows three of n
kind or "prile" as 1t is called. The
value of the hands are, high card, a
pair, q run, flush or three of kind
or "prile." The limit is generally a
penny, so 1t is hard to win a fortune.
The next in popularity is a card
game called NAP" 1t Is we'll named.
Every time played 1t went to sleep.
Whist and solo whist are played by
the highbrows of the company.
When the gamblers tire of all othe-
games they try Banker and Broker"
spent a week trying to teach some
of the Tommies how to play poker, but
because 1 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, seven up, or pinochle. They have
game similar to pinochle called
"Royal Bezique," but few know how to
play ii.
Generally there are two decks of
cards In a section, and In q 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 condcscend to lend
them after much cOaxing.
said 1t was big happy family, and
so it is, but as in all happy families,
there are servants, so in the British
army there are also servants, officers
servants, or 30. S." as they are termed.
In the American army the common
name for them is dog robbers" From
controversy in the English papers,
Winston Churchill made the state
ment, as far as 1 can remember, that
the officers servants in the British
forces totaled nearly two hundred
thousand. He claimed that this re-
moved two hundred thousand eXcep-
tionally good and well-trained fighters
from the actual firing line, claiming
that the officers, when selecting q man
for servants duty, generally picked the
man who had been out the longest and
knew the ropes.
But from my observation find that
a large percentage of the servants do
go over the top, but behind the lines
they very seldom engage in digging
parties, fat .,ues, paradcs or drills.
This work is as necessary as actually
engaging IL IN attack, therefore i think
IL would be safe TO say that the all
round WORK q the two hundred thou
sand is about equal to fifty thousand
men who are on straight military du-
ties. In numerous instances, officers
servants hold the rank of lance-corpo-
rails and they assume the same duties
and authority of n butler, the one
stripe giving him precedence over the
other servants.
There are lots OF amusing stories
told OF 20. s." j