The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

CROWLEY POOL [Tus pool will be found superior to the “Calcutta Sweep” usually held on steamers.] 1. A pack of cards is shuffled, cut, and sealed up by the purser, or other disinterested party. 2. Tickets are bought, and numbers drawn as usual. 3. The numbers from “ Low Field” to “ High Field” are sold by auction as usual, half the price going to the original drawer, half being added to the pool. 4. The ship’s run is declared, and the winner has a temporary claim on the pool. 5. The purser now takes the sealed pack of cards, and deals them one by one face upward, until he has dealt five plain cards. The sum of the pips on these five cards is the amount of the pool in sovereigns, or, if the amount of the pool already exceed that amount, in sums of £2. [Thus, if 5 Spades, 2 Clubs, 10 Hearts, 3 Clubs, 8 Diamonds turn up, the winner takes (5+2+10+3+8) £28. If there be already more than 428 in the pool, the amount will be £56, and so on. There must always be a deficit] 6. If these 5 plain cards come out without interruption from Court Cards, the winner of the run takes the pool. But any red court card shifts the sum higher, any black court card lower. Aces 4, Kings 3, Queens 2, Knaves1. [&.g,, let the 204