Night is not Dark to the Good.

1. Crib.—The crib is composed of the cards thrown out by each player, and the dealer is entitled to score whatever points are made by them.

1. Pairs are two similar cards, as two aces or two kings. Whether in hand or play they reckon for two points.

1. Pairs-Royal are three similar cards, and reckon for six points, whether in hand or play.

1. Double Pairs-Royal are four similar cards and reckon for twelve points, whether in hand or play. The points gained by pairs, pairs-royal, and double pairs-royal, in playing, are thus effected:—Your adversary having played a seven and you another, constitutes a pair, and entitles you to score two points; your antagonist then playing a third seven, makes a pair-royal, and he marks six; and your playing a fourth is a double pair-royal, and entitles you to twelve points.

1. Fifteens.—Every fifteen reckons for two points, whether in hand or play. In hand they are formed either by two cards—as a five and any tenth card, a six and a nine, a seven and an eight, or by three cards, as a two, a five, and an eight, two sixes and a three. If in play, such cards as together make fifteen are played, the player whose card completes that number, scores two points.

1. Sequences are three or four more successive cards, and reckon for an equal number of points, either in hand or play. In playing a sequence, it is of no consequence which card is thrown down first; as thus:—your adversary playing an ace, you a five, he a three, you a two, then he a four—he counts five for the sequence.

1. Flush.—When, the cards are all of one suit, they reckon for as many points as there are cards. For a flush in the crib, the turned-up card must be of the same suit as those put out.

1. Nob.—The knave of the suit turned up reckons for one point; if a knave be turned up, the dealer marks two.

1. End Hole.—The point scored by the last player, if he make under thirty-one; if he make thirty-one exactly, he marks two.

1. Last.—Three points taken at the commencement of the game of five-card cribbage by the non-dealer.

Nor is Day Bright to the Wicked.

1. The players cut for deal. The ace is lowest in cutting. In case of a tie, they cut again. The holder of the lowest card deals.

1. Not fewer than four cards is a cut; nor must the non-dealer touch the pack after he has cut it.

1. Too many or too few cards dealt constitutes a misdeal, the penalty for which is the taking of two points by the non-dealer.

1. A faced card, or a card exposed during the act of dealing necessitates a new deal, without penalty.

1. The dealer shuffles the cards and the non-dealer cuts them for the "start."

1. If the non-dealer touch the cards (except to cut them for the turn-up) after they have been cut for the start, he forfeits two points.

1. In cutting for the start, not fewer than three cards must be lifted from the pack or left on the table.

1. The non-dealer throws out for the crib before the dealer. A card once laid out cannot be recalled, nor must either party touch the crib till the hand is played out. Either player confusing the crib cards with his hand, is liable to a penalty of three points.

[In three and four-hand cribbage the left-hand player throws out first for the crib, then the next; the dealer last. The usual and best way is for the non-dealer to throw his crib over to the dealer's side of the board; on these two cards the dealer places his own, and hands the pack over to be cut. The pack is then at the right side of the board for the next deal.]

1. The player who takes more points than those to which he is entitled, either in play or in reckoning hand or crib, is liable to be "pegged;" that is, to be put back as many points as he has over-scored, and have the points added to his opponent's side.

[In pegging you must not remove your opponent's front peg till you have given him another. In order "to take him down,'' you remove your own back peg and place it where his front peg ought to be, you then take his wrongly placed peg and put it in front of your own front, as many holes as he has forfeited by wrongly scoring.]

1. No penalty attaches to the taking of too few points in play, hand, or crib.

1. When a player has once taken his hand or crib, he cannot amend his score.

1. When a knave is turned up, "two for his heels" must be scored before the dealer's own card be played, or they cannot be taken.

1. A player cannot demand the assistance of his adversary in reckoning hand and crib.

1. A player may not, except to "peg him," touch his adversary's pegs, under a penalty of two points. If the foremost peg has been displaced by accident, it must be placed in the hole behind the peg standing on the board.

1. The peg once holed cannot be removed by either player till another point or points be gained.

1. The player who scores a game as won when, in fact, it is not won, loses it.

1. A lurch—scoring the whole sixty-one before your adversary has scored thirty-one—is equivalent to a double game, if agreed to previous to the commencement of the game.

1. A card that may be legally played cannot be withdrawn after it has been once thrown face upwards on the table.

1. If a player neglect to score his hand, crib, or any point or points of the game, he cannot score them after the cards are packed or the next card played.

1. The player who throws up his cards and refuses to score, forfeits the game.

1. If a player neglect to play when he can play a card within the prescribed thirty-one, he forfeits two holes.

1. Each player's hand and crib must be plainly thrown down on the table and not mixed with the pack, under penalty of the forfeiture of the game.

The player who refuses to abide by the rules, loses the game. Bystanders must not interfere unless requested to decide any disputed point.

Rustle is not Industry.

1. A new deal can be demanded for an exposed card, too few or too many cards dealt; in the latter case, a new deal is optional, provided it be done before a card has been played, but not after, to draw from the opposing hand the extra card.

1. iNo person can beg more than once in each hand, except by mutual agreement.

1. Each player must trump or follow suit on penalty of the adversary scoring one point.

1. If either player score wrongly it must be taken down, and the adversary either scores four points or one, as may have previously been agreed.

1. When a trump is played, it is allowable to ask your adversary if it be either high or low.

1. One card may count all-fours; for example, the eldest hand holds the knave and stands his game, the dealer has neither trump, ten, ace, nor court-card; it will follow that the knave will be both high, low, Jack, and game, as explained by:

The other cards do not count: thus it may happen that a deal may be played without having any to reckon for game.

1. Make your knave as soon as you can.

1. Secure your tens by playing any small cards, by which you may throw the lead into you adversary's hand.

1. Win your adversary's best cards when you can, either by trumping or with superior cards.

1. If, being eldest hand, you hold either ace, king, or queen of trumps, without the knave or ten, play them immediately, as, by this means, you may chance to win the knave or ten.

1. This game is played by any number of persons, from three, but five or seven make the best game.

1. The cards are cut for deal, the holder of the lowest card being dealer; after which the deal goes round, from left to right. In case of a tie, the players cut again. Ace is lowest, and the court-cards and tens are reckoned of the same value,—namely, ten.

1. The left-hand adversary shuffles or makes the pack, and the player to the right of the dealer cuts previous to the deal.

1. The cards take their usual value, ace highest; then king, queen, knave, ten, and so on, down to deuce. The dealer then gives three cards, one at a time, face downwards, to each player; and also dealing an extra hand, or "miss," which may be thrown on the table either as the first or last card of each round.

1. A card too many or too few is a misdeal.

1. The stakes being settled beforehand, the dealer puts into the pool his three halfpence, pence, or sixpences, and the game proceeds:

1. The first player on the left of the dealer looks at his hand, and declares whether he will play or take the miss. If he decide to play, he says, "I play," or "I take the miss;" but he may elect to do neither; in which case he places his cards on the pack, and has nothing further to do with that round. The next player looks at his hand, and says whether he will play or not; and so on, till the turn comes to the dealer, who, if only one player stand the chance of the loo, may either play or give up the stakes.

1. In the first round it is usual either to deal a single; that is, a round without a miss, when all the players must play; or each player puts into the pool a sum equal to that staked by the dealer in which latter case a miss is dealt.

Never Open the Door to a Little Vice.

1. For a misdeal the dealer is looed.

1. For playing out of turn or looking at the miss without taking it, the player is looed.

1. If the first player possess two or three trumps, he must play the highest, or be looed.

1. With ace of trumps only, the first player must lead it, or be looed.

1. The player who looks at his own cards, or the miss out of his turn, is looed.

1. The player who looks at his neighbour's hand, either during the play or when they lie on the table, is looed.

1. The player who informs another what cards he possesses, or gives any intimation that he knows such or such cards to be in the hand or the miss, is looed.

1. The player who throws up his cards after the leading card is played, is looed.

1. Each player who follows the elder hand must head the trick if he can, or be looed.

1. Each player must follow suit if he can, or be looed.

The player who is looed pays into the pool the sum agreed.

1. In principle it is the same as the other game Loo, only instead of three, the dealer (having paid his own stake into the pool) gives five cards to each player, one by one, face downwards.

1. After five cards have been dealt to each player, another is turned up for trump; the knave of clubs generally, or sometimes the knave of the trump suit, as agreed upon, is the highest card, and is styled Pam; the ace of trumps is next in value, and the rest on succession, as at Whist. Each player can change all or any of the five cards dealt, or throw up his hand, and escape being looed. Those who play their cards, either with or without changing, and do not gain a trick, are looed. This is also the case with all who have stood the game, when a flush or flushes occur; and each, except a player holding pam, of an inferior flush, must pay a stake, to be given to him who sweeps the board, or divided among the winners at the ensuing deal, according to the tricks made. For instance, if every one at dealing stakes half-a-crown, the tricks are entitled to sixpence a-piece, and whoever is looed must put down half-a-crown, exclusive of the deal; sometimes it is settled that each person looed shall pay a sum equal to what happens to be on the table at the time. Five cards of a suit, or four with pam, make a flush which sweeps the board, and yields only to a superior flush, or the elder hand. When the ace of trumps is led, it is usual to say, "Pam be civil;" the holder of which last-mentioned card must then let the ace pass.

1. Any player with five cards of a suit (a flush) looes all the players who stand in the game.

1. The rules in this game are the same as in Three Card Loo.