The Square of Sevens | Page 5

in a downward
Border, leftward, to the thirteen already placed. (Fig. 3.)
Nineteen cards now face you in the Series. Shuffle again, and deal from
the Bottom of the
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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.)
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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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