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beginning of the Game, so as not to extend be yond the four back rows; but no piece must be changed after the first move, except as in the common course of play.

Game the Seventh.

Each player to have a piece crowned at the beginning of the Game stiled a General, placed on any white square of the black row: with the move of the Bishop in the Game of Chess, forwards or backwards, the whole length of the board, yet only to take or be taken as à man.

Game the Eighth.

When played on the larger board by three persons, place five black men with the turret on the back row, four on the next, and in the centre one, making ten; the white men in the same manner, to face each other on the right and left of the black; black to move first, then the whites on the left, next the whites to the right, and then black again; and so in rotation towards the opposite side of the Board; to take either forward or backward over one man at a time, as far as there is a vacancy; when arrived at the opposite side to be crowned, unless there is a man to take backwards, which must be taken or huffed. The Kings have no privilege but as in the common game. In this game, as well as when four play, the pieces have equal power, and each player should endeavour to keep the balance even, avoiding all combination. The small board requires only four men placed on the four white back squares, and three on the next, making seven for each player. When played on the greater board by four persons, either as

partners or not, let five men be placed on the back row of each side of the board, on the second four, on the next one in the centre, making ten on each side, and leaving twenty vacant squares in the middle; black to face the black, and white the white; the blacks that are distinguished by a small turret, with a cleft on the top, to begin the game; the whites with the turret to stand on the left of the blacks, are to move next; then the blacks that have not a turret, and last the whites that have not, and so in rotation, &c. as in the game with three, but if partners the taking of the same colour to be optional; on the small board the complement will be seven for each person, leaving ten squares in the centre. If a stake is played for, and partners, that must be equally divided between the winners; but if not partners, the first who loses all the men forfeits all claim; the second whose men are lost takes one quarter, and the third one quarter more, leaving the other half for the conqueror; though when a drawn Game, the three quarters to be equally divided between the two last players.

POLISH DRAUGHTS.

The Polish game of Draughts is played by two persons with 20 men each, on a board containing 100 squares divided into ten rows, and in a manner similar to the common game, except that, in this, pieces are taken either backwards or for wards; but are not to be moved off the board until the man or king taking the same has rested on the last vacant square far as he then can go; and

also in executing a stroke the adversary is not to move more than once over any of the captives: and should all the captured pieces not be taken off the board, the capturer in that case is forfeited or huffed at the option of the antagonist, and the act of huffing is not to be reckoned as a move. A player may decline the huff by compelling his adversary to capture, or may delay doing either, and if several of the opponent's pieces are in situations to be taken, it is requisite to proceed so as to obtain most captives, preferring kings before the men; the antagonist can insist upon this being done or huff the piece: and if in taking prisoners a man merely passes over one or more of the back squares, he is not thereby entitled to be crowned, that event only taking place when remaining on one of the said squares.

A king may move from one end of an oblique line to another, if the passage be free both from his own colour and the adversary's, provided such adversaries are not in a situation to be taken; and having adversaries to take, the king may at once traverse over several squares, provided those squares are empty; or over squares occupied by the adversary's pieces, if they are in a situation to be taken: so that a king often turns to the right and left, making almost the whole range of the board.

When, towards the conclusion the players happen to have, one three kings, the other one king only on the board; if the single king be upon the centre diagonal line, and there be no immediate stroke in view, the game, after a few moves, should be relinquished, and considered as a drawn game. But if the single king does not occupy the said centre diagonal line; it is usual to play on till twenty moves shall have been respectively

repeated before the game is pronounced drawn. When, towards the end of a game, only a king, against a king and two men, or two kings and one man, remain on the board, the player having the solitary king, may compel the adversary to have his man or men crowned directly in order to lose no time in beginning to count the aforesaid twenty moves.

If at any time a false move is made, it depends upon the adversary whether that shall be recalled, and when a piece is touched, unless for the sake of arranging the same, the adversary may insist upon that being played if it can be so done.

CRICKET.

LAWS OF THE GAME.

THE ball must weigh not less than five ounces and a half, nor more than five ounces and

three quarters.

At the beginning of each innings, either party may call for a new ball.

The bat must not exceed four inches and one quarter in the widest part.

The stumps must be twenty-four inches out of the ground, the bails seven inches long,

The bowling-crease must be parallel with the stumps, three feet in length, with a return

crease.

The popping-crease must be three feet ten inches from the wickets, and parallel to them, and the wickets must be opposite to each other, at the distance of twenty-two yards.

It shall not be lawful for either party during a

match, without the consent of the other, to alter the ground, by rolling, watering, covering, mowing, or beating: This rule is not meant to prevent the striker from beating the ground with his bat near where he stands during the innings, or to prevent the bowler from filling up holes, watering his ground, or using sawdust, &c. when the ground is

wet.

The wickets shall be pitched within thirty yards of a centre fixed by the adversaries.

The bowler must deliver the ball with one foot behind the bowling-crease, and within the returncrease; and shall bowl four balls before he changes wickets, which he shall do but once in the same innings, and he may order the player at his wicket to stand on which side of it he pleases.

If the bowler tosses the ball over the striker's head, or bowls it so wide that the striker cannot play at it, the party that is in shall be allowed one notch, to be put down to the byes, and those balls not to be reckoned as any of the four balls.

If the bowler bowls a no ball, the striker may play at it, and be allowed all the runs he can get, and shall not be put out, except. by running

out.

The ball must be bowled underhand, and delivered with the hand below the elbow.

In the event of a change of bowling, no more than two balls to be allowed in practice.

The bowler who takes the two balls, to be ob liged to bowl four balls.

The striker is out if the bail is bowled off, or the stump bowled out of the ground: or if the ball, from a stroke over or under his bat, or upon his hands (but not wrists) is held before it touches the ground, though it be hugged to the body of

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