CHAP. VI.
PICKET.
BEfore you begin the Game at Picket, you must throw out of the Pack the Deuces, Treys, Fours and Fives, and play with the rest of the Cards, which are in number thirty and six.
The usual Set is an hundred, not but that you may make it more or less; the last Card deals and the worst is the Dealers.
The Cards are all valued according to the number of the spots they bear, the Ace only excepted, which wins all other Cards, and goes for eleven.
The Dealer shuffles, and the other cuts, delivering what number he plea∣seth at a time, so that he exceed not four nor deal under two, leaving twelve on the table between them.
He that is the elder, having lookt o∣ver