HISTORY OF THE PACK OF CARDS
and
were
used
when not
by warriors
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professionally
engaged.
Thus we have the King, his Vizier or General, his
Knights or Warriors, the Jack or Knave, thought by
some to represent the King's sons, though more obviously
the well-to-do people,
and the commoners.
It is
worth
noting that an old Eastern form of Chess was played on
a board of ten squares each way, thus absolutely agree-
commoner cards of our Tarot and Playing
seems probable that a ten-piece game, with
superior pieces or cards, was the original source of our
modern Chess, with its eight common and eight superior
ing with the ten
packs.
It
pieces, as well as