Enquire within upon everything by Robert Kemp Philp

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 Triple in the third Game, 3; the Rubber (two Games of three), 2; together, 6. From this deduct 2, for the Double gained by the opponents in the second Game, which leaves 4, as above. Short Whist is usually played for points--say, a shilling, or a penny, for each point; two for the Game, and two for the Rubber. [NONE ARE SO GOOD AS THEY SHOULD BE.]