Excerpt from Foster's Common Sense Leads, and How to Learn Them: By the Author of Foster's Whist Manual The old leads, as they are called, and the American leads, which shared the field with them for a time, are no longer played in their integrity, and in their place has sprung up a sys tem of leads based upon common-sense considera tions of the average value of the hand from which the lead is made. What these leads are, and how to learn them, it is the purpose of the following pages to show. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.