ore, as is sometimes
erroneously believed.]

xiii. Before he plays, a player may require his partner to "draw his
card," or he may have each card in the trick claimed before the
trick be turned.

xiv. When a player does not follow suit his partner is allowed to
ask him whether he has any card of the suit led.

xv. The penalty for a revoke--either by wrongfully trumping the suit
led, or by playing a card of another suit--is the loss of three
tricks; but no revoke can be claimed till the cards are abandoned,
and the trick turned.

[Revokes forfeit three tricks from the hand or score: or opponents
may add three to their score; partner may ask and correct a trick if
not turned; the revoking side cannot score out in that deal.]

xvi. No revoke can be claimed after the tricks are gathered up, or
after the cards are cut for the next deal.

[The wilful mixing up of the cards in such case loses the game.]

xvii. The proof of a revoke lies with the claimants, who may examine
each trick on the completion of the round.

xviii. If a revoke occur on both sides, there must be a new deal.

xix. Honours cannot be counted unless they are claimed previous to
the next deal.

[No omission to score honours can be rectified after the cards are
packed; but an overscore, if proved, must be deducted.]

xx. Honours can only be called at eight points (in Long Whist), and
at nine they do not count.

[In some Clubs, eight, with the deal, cannot call against nine.]

77. Short Whist

is the above game cut in half. Honours are not _called_ at any part of
the game; but, as in Long Whist, they are counted by their holders and
scored--except at the score of four. All the maxims and Rules
belonging to the parent game apply to Short Whist.

78. Points at Short Whist.

The Game consists of Five Points. One for a Single--5 to 3 or 4; Two
for a Double--5 to 1 or 2; Three for a Triple--5 to love. A
Rubber--two Games successively won, or the two best Games out of
three--counts for Two Points. Thus, if the first Game be won by 5 to
4, the Points are 1 to love; the second Game won by the opposite side
by 5 to 1, the Points are then 1 to 2; the third Game won by the side
which won the first, by 5 to love. The Points are then 6 to 2--a
balance of 4. This is arrived at thus: the Single in the first Game,
1; the T