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Short Whist: Its Rise, Progress, and Laws, By Charles Barwell Coles. Short Whist is presented as a witty 1835 treatise explaining how the game emerged as a rival to traditional Whist and outlining a practical code of rules. The work recounts a humorous anecdote about four gentlemen over a lobster creating a new game approach at Brookes’s and traces the ensuing political-like formation of a 'Short' Whist code that favors quicker play and different scoring. The central portion, titled Laws of Short Whist, lays out the five-up rule, the treatment of honours, dealing faults, card calling, leading strategies, and methods to handle revokes, with numbered provisions and practical commentary. It also discusses strategies, memory aids, tenace and finesse, and how composition and leading choices influence the outcome. Additional sections collect the laws for related games such as Piquet, Cassino, Ecarte, Cribbage, and Backgammon, concluding with a light, satirical coda on social clubs and etiquette. The work offers both historical context and a guide to play and thinking at the card-table.
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