BREAD AND HONEY,

by Thomas De La Rue & co.

The game is played with a pack of fifty-three cards, consisting of four Clowns, four Queens, four Kings, four Maids, and thirty-seven Blackbirds.

Two packs should be used if the players are numerous.

The cards being shuffled and cut, are dealt one at a time, face downwards, to each player in rotation until the pack is exhausted. Each player then arranges his cards in a pack in front of himself, keeping them face downwards.

The player to the dealer's left then turns up the top card of his pack and places it face upwards on the table in front of himself, and the other players follow in turn, until one of them plays either a Clown, a Queen, a King or a Maid.

When this happens, the next player must play, face upwards one at a time, for a Clown one card, for a Queen two cards, for a King three, and for a Maid four; if he should not have sufficient cards left to play, then the next player must play those still owing; and if the card or cards should prove to be Blackbirds, the player who has played the Clown, Queen, King, or Maid, as the case may be, wins the whole of the cards already displayed on the table, adds them face downwards to the bottom of the pack, and proceeds to play another card.

But if, instead of being Blackbirds, one of the cards played to the Clown, Queen, King, or Maid should be a Clown, Queen, King, or Maid, it becomes the turn of the next players to play one, two, three, or four cards, as the case may be; and so on until one of the players has won the whole of the pack.