---- ---- ---- | | | | 22 | | | | | | ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- | | | | 21 | | | | | | ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- | | | | 20 | | | | | | ---- ---- ---- ---- | | | | | | | | ---- ---- ---- | | | FIG. 4 | | | ---- ----
Pack, to the Right hand of the Figure a-making, Five cards, in an ascending Border. (Fig. 4.)
Shuffle again; and from the Top of the Pack deal down other Five Cards, laid in descent,
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as a Left-Hand Border. (Fig. 5.)
Your next Shuffling and Dealing will cause you to lay down, from the Bottom of the Pack, Four Cards, in a Right Ascension (Fig. 6), as you were laying
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a Tiled Floor or a Ceiling Pattern. There are now three-and-thirty Cards laid. Again Shuffle, and from the Top of the Pack lay-- downward--a Leftward Border of Four Cards. (Fig. 7.)
---- ---- ---- ---- | | | | | | | | | | ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- | | | | | | | | | | | | ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- | 34 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- | 35 | | | | | | | | | | | | | ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- | 36 | | | | | | | | | | | ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- | 37 | | | | FIG. 7 | | | | | ---- ---- ---- ----
Of the sudden appearing of the Fair Cross.
Observe that each side of your Figure thereby has Four Cards, and its midmost Rows, horizontal and perpendicular contain, like the first Row laid, Seven cards apiece; and offer thereby a Fair Cross, the Goodliest Sign.
The first Figure needed, the Square, is now nearing Shape; its Rows, diagonal or horizontal or perpendicular, equalizing. Shuffle, and deal from the Bottom of the Pack, a Rightward Border of Three Cards, upward laid. (Fig. 8.) You have now four rows of sevens, in your figure: a Cross, withal still to be found in its middle--reckoned up and down and right and left.
You must now Shuffle--so well as your lessened cards will allow, yet with but one Shuffle--and deal, from your Pack's Top, a downward Left-Hand Border of Three Cards. (Fig.9.) Note that you now have in your Figure three Rows of Sevens; which you may well
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