PageIntroductory7Wooden Arrangement, No. 1—The Signal and the Echo9Wooden Arrangement, No. 2—Tampering with the Discard12The Modern Game19Wooden Arrangement, No. 3—Original Lead of the Longest Suit20Wooden Arrangement, No. 4—The Lead of the Penultimate and its Congeners25Some Pillars of the Modern Edifice—Pillar No. 1—The Philosophy of Whist33Pillar No. 2—Illustrative Whist Hands41Pillar No. 3—Developments, Generalizations, and Extensions of Principle47Whittling at the Small End of Nothing52A Whist Player’s Wail56Arithmetic Applied to Whist by a Small Boy70Conclusion73