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lead at the time be from the friend or foe; if from the first, the discard is intended to direct the partner, otherwise it is to mislead the opponent : when proficients throw away the best of a suit to a partner's winning card, it is intimating that they command the same [see pages 103 and 123, rules 2 and 6]; and should the second-best be thrown away, that is saying they do not possess any more ; if a low card be led before the next inferior one, that implies a weak suit, and the contrary when the lowest is played first; endeavour likewise to keep the command of your enemies' suits, but never those of your friend. [See pages 103, 104, rules 1, 2, 3 ; and page 148, maxim 1.]
Leading from single cards, without a strength of trumps, is hazardous, but often advantageous ; hazardous, for when a friend possesses the king guarded, he will lose it should the ace lie behind him, or should he win he may play trump, as believing the single card to be from a strong suit, or the enemies may do so, as guessing at your views ; on the other hand, advantageous, as by so leading you may both preserve tenace in other suits, and perhaps make some small trumps. [See pages 92 and 156, rules 19 and 14.] Possessing tierce to a king, with others of the same suit, lead the knave ; holding ace-king, or king-queen, with either five or four more, play the highest, except in trumps, and then with four or less, lead the lowest; do the same in other suits when all the remaining trumps are with you and friend. Having an ace, or king of trumps, with sequence from ten downwards, and queen or knave turned up on the left, lead the ten ; having ace, queen, knave, or ace, queen, ten and more, lead the ace. [See page 151, maxims 7 and 8.] With ace, queen, and ten, when the knave is turned up on the right, lead the queen ;
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