The Square of Sevens | Page 6

E. Irenaeus Stevenson
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wish were Guineas for your Purse.
Again Shuffle, as best you can, and from your Bottom Cards in the Pack deal Two Cards, laid at the right, upward, as in Fig. 10, nearly finishing
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your Square, now holding four rows of Sevens.
Again mix your cards; and deal from their Top, Two Cards, leftward laid in descent, as in Fig. 11. How much, O, Friend, in Human Life is nearly
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perfect, yet not quite perfect!
Truly no Man shall reckon this Life a Perfect Matter with him! R.A.
Confuse now, as best and honestest you may (for you can hardly essay a shuffle), at least Once your two last Cards: and so complete your Square
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of Sevens, out of which will presently rise the Parallelogram; by laying its Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth cards in Opposition Comers, as in Fig. 12.
The Square is completed.
Consider this Figure attentively.
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