If at last an ace be played, the neighbor of the one who plays it must pay him four cards; if a king three cards, if a queen two, and if a jack one.  The one who played the court card also takes all the cards that have been played, and puts them under his own pack.  If, however, in playing for a court card, one of the players puts down another court card, then his neighbor must pay him, and he takes the whole pack instead of the previous player.  Sometimes it happens that a second player in paying puts down a court card, and the third player in paying him puts down another, and so on, until perhaps the fourth or fifth player actually gets the cards in the end.

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RIDDLES

Few children think they will ever tire of playing games; but all the same, toward the end of a long evening, spent merrily in dancing and playing, the little ones begin to get too weary to play any longer, and it is very difficult to keep them amused.

Then comes the time for riddles!  The children can sit quietly round the room, resting after their romps and laughter, and yet be kept thoroughly interested, trying to guess riddles.

It is, however, very difficult to remember a number of good and laughable ones, so we will give a list of some, which will be quite sufficient to puzzle a roomful of little folk for several hours.

Why are weary people like carriage wheels?  Answer:  Because they are tired.

An old woman in a red cloak was passing a field in which a goat was feeding.  What strange transformation suddenly took place?  Answer:  The goat turned to butter (butt her), and the woman into a scarlet runner.

Why does a duck go into the water?  Answer:  For divers reasons.

Spell “blind pig” in two letters.  P G; a pig without an I.

Which bird can lift the heaviest weights?  The crane.

Why is a wise man like a pin?  He has a head and comes to a point.

Why is a Jew in a fever like a diamond?  Because he is a Jew-ill.

Why may carpenters reasonably believe there is no such thing as stone? 
Because they never saw it.

What is that which is put on the table and cut, but never eaten?  A pack of cards.

When does a farmer double up a sheep without hurting it?  When he folds it.

What lives upon its own substance and dies when it has devoured itself?  A candle.

Why is a dog biting his tail like a good manager?  Because he makes both ends meet.

What thing is it that is lower with a head than without one?  A pillow.

Which is the left side of a plum pudding?  That which is not eaten.

What letter of the alphabet is necessary to make a shoe?  The last.

If all the seas were dried up, what would everybody say?  We haven’t a notion (an ocean).

Why is it certain that “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was not written by the hand of its reputed author?  Because it was written by Mrs. Beecher’s toe (Stowe).