At a little side table, a man was sitting down to rejoin a friend in a private game of ecarte.

No person really understanding cards will aver that there is "no play in Ecarte."

This work was followed by treatises on the laws of the card games piquet and ecarte.

The game, too, was my favorite ecarte!

For the most part, however, my duties were to play ecarte with Captain Fourneau, and to act as his companion.

Now, Colonel Gerard, with your permission we will resume our game of ecarte."

Haitians are the ecarte of French stock-jobbing.

One was the young man at the faro table, the other, the mustached gambler who was dealing two hands of ecarte.

The man was the darkish gambler with the mustache, the one who had been dealing ecarte when Terry noticed him at Tex's.

He asked Ashenden whether he played ecarte and when Ashenden told him that he did not suggested piquet.

At last one evening, as Captain Fourneau and I were playing ecarte in the cabin, the mate entered with an angry look upon his sunburned face.

You are, beyond doubt, uninformed of the true character of the person who has to-night won at ecarte a large sum of money from Lord Glendinning.

Mrs Gowan glanced at the other end of the room, where her son was playing ecarte on a sofa, with the old lady who was for a charge of cavalry.

Still smiling, he proposed me the "Regle des Jeux de la Societe"-- piquet, bezique, ecarte, whist, dice, draughts, and chess.

The announcement of supper put a stop both to the game of ecarte, and the recapitulation of the beauties of the Eatanswill GAZETTE.

Said a worldly Parisian to his son, whom he discovered lamenting over an empty purse, "My son, until you have four eyes in your head, risk not your gold at Ecarte.'

The Chippewas of Chenail Ecarte, the Ausable River, and St. Clair River negotiated with John Askin, then Superintendent of Indian Affairs, for this tract.

Hamilton won consistently until about eleven o'clock; when his luck changed he suggested that they move on to the Divan Club in the Strand, where they turned a blind eye to illegal games such as evens and odds, and ecarte.

The villain of fiction dearly loves a parish register: he cuts out pages, inserts others, intercalates remarks in a different coloured ink, and generally manipulates the register as a Greek manages his hand at ecarte, or as a Hebrew dealer in Moabite bric-a-brac treats a synagogue roll.

THE RULES Of all Games of Commerce, the most fashionable at this moment is Ecarte; yet, strange to say, we have never yet been furnished with a complete Treatise on its Rules--still less has any writer indicated the method of playing, or explained its niceties and different combinations.