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How To Play Cards For Wholesome Recreation: 79 total pages.

Would like to have the pleasure of your jolly company, To help them celebrate in a manner fit and hearty The umptieth anniversary of their famous "Mad Tea Party". Below are the names of the hostess, and the day, date, and hour. The guests arrive to find the rooms all upset-chairs crowded into a heap, books on the floor, curtains askew, card tables still folded, and jonquils and other spring flowers scattered on tables beside vases of water. The hostess explains that a March wind has just blown through her rooms and disarranged them. With the help of the guests the rooms are quickly put in order, and progressive Five Hundred begins, with rabbit-shaped tally cards. At the end of four hands the hostess an­nounces that all who already have made slams must deduct 1000 from their scores, and in the future must subtract 500 for each slam. This causes much bewailing until, at the end of the play, the hostess awards the first prize to the lowest score, and the booby to the highest. Tea is served at the dining table, bearing as centerpiece

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