Place the figure you mean to gild into a solution of nitro-muriate of gold. On taking out from the latter, it will be covered with metallic gold.
_How to make the Constable catch the Knave._
Take a pack of cards and look out the four knaves, lay one of them privately on the top of the pack, and the other three on the table, saying, here you see, are three knaves got together, about no good you may be sure, then lay down a king by the side of them saying, but here comes the constable and catches them together. Oh, oh, says he, have I caught you then together? Well the next time I catch you together I’ll punish you severely for your rogueries. Oh, but, says they, you shan’t catch us together in haste; so they determine to go three different ways. I’ll go here, says one, (so take one of the knaves and put him at the top of the cards.) I’ll go here, says another, (so put him at the bottom.) And I’ll go here, says a third, (so put him exactly in the middle.) “Nay,” says the constable, “if you run I’ll make sure of one, so I’ll follow the first, then take the king and put him at the top of the pack, and let any one cut the cards three or four times, and then deal; cut the cards one by one, and you will find three together, and the constable with them.”
_To tell the amount of the Numbers of any two Cards drawn from a common Pack._
Let the person who has drawn the two cards deduct the number of each of them from twenty-six, which is half the number of the pack, and after adding the remainder together, let him tell you the total, which you privately deduct from fifty-two, the number of cards in a perfect pack, and the remainder will be the amount of the two cards.
Suppose the two cards drawn are 5 and 8; then the person deducting 5 from 26, there remain 21; then 8 from 26 there remain 18; these two remainders added together make 39, which you substract from 52, and there remain 13 the number of the two cards when added together.
_To tell the number of Cards by their weight._
Take a parcel of cards, suppose forty, among which insert two long cards, let the first be, for example, the tenth, and the other the fourteenth from the top; seem to shuffle the cards, and then cutting them at the first long card, poise those you have cut off in your left hand, “there should be here ten cards.” Cut them again, at the second long card, and say, “there are only four cards.” Then weighing the remainder, you say, “here are only twenty-eight cards.”