The evolution of whist : a study of the progressive changes which the game has passed through from its origin to the present time by Pole William 1814-1900

Author:Pole, William, 1814-1900
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Whist
Publisher: New York ; London : Longmans, Green
Published: 1895-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

MODERN SIGNALLING.—THE GERM 125

Here, therefore, he clearly points to the real element of novelty, that is, the " reduction to a conventional sigfn, gfood in the low-est cards as well as in the highest." And he considers this process so natural that he is reported to have stated in conversation, that '' if a tribe of savages were taught Whist, he believed they would arrive at the signal in course of time by their own intuition."

" Cavendish " has also described the case in a very striking manner, and his description is so terse and so excellent that we give it entire. He says (21st Ed., page 143):

" It is a common artifice, if you wish a trump to be led, to drop a high card to the adversary's lead, to induce him to believe that you will trump it next round, whereupon the leader will very likely change the suit and perhaps lead trumps. Thus, if he leads King (from Ace, King and others) and you hold Queen and one other, it is evident that you cannot make the Queen. If you throw the Queen to his King, he may lead a trump to prevent you trumping his ace; but if he goes on with the suit and you drop your small card, it may fairly be inferred that you have been endeavouring to get him to lead a trump. Your partner should now take the hint, and, if he gets the lead, lead trumps ; for if you want them led it is of little consequence from whom the lead comes,

" By a conventional extension of this system to lower cards it is understood that, whenever you throw away an im7iecessarily high card, it is a sign (after the smaller card drops) that you want trumps led. This is called askhig for trumps, or calliuiJ^ for irumps^

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