The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 473
every player should have a change of name. Twirl the Trencher proved a great success with us. I think, said Tom, it is the best of all games. Thatis a slap-dash assertion, remarked Notes-and-Queries. I would not go so far as that; but I think there are few sodeserving of popularity. Thus ended the… … DRAUGHTS. By George Frederick Pardon. OPENINGS—LAIKD AND LADY AND OLD FOURTEENTH. S yon will have already dis-covered, the opening of thegame is fully as important asthe finish; and that the twomost successful openings arethe Old Fourteenth and theSingle Corner. I may tell you,however, that there…
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