CHAPTER II.

I. Sedentary Games--II. Dice-playing;--Its Prevalency and Bad Effects--III. Ancient Dice-box;--Anecdote relating to false Dice--IV. Chess;--Its Antiquity--V. The Morals of Chess--VI. Early Chess-play in France and England--VII. The Chess-board--VIII. The Pieces, and their Form--IX. The various Games of Chess--X. Ancient Games similar to Chess--XI. The Philosopher's Game--XII. Draughts, French and Polish--XIII. Merelles, or Nine Mens' Morris--XIV. Fox and Geese--XV. The Solitary Game--XVI. Backgammon, anciently called Tables;--The different Manners of playing at Tables--XVII. Backgammon, its former and present Estimation--XVIII. Domino--XIX. Cards, when invented--XX. Card-playing much practised--XXI. Forbidden--XXII. Censured by Poets--XXIII. A Specimen of ancient Cards--XXIV. Games formerly played with Cards--XXV. The Game of Goose--and of the Snake--XXVI. Cross and Pile 305