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 Ri
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