With such complete and perfected practice of their game, the four players made personal application and asked permission to play their game on the floor of the "king's court," for the edification, amusement and enjoyment of their honored king and queen. They were granted the audience they had asked, and played their first initial game—as yet without name—in the early part of the sixteenth century; so still and silent, with no word spoken above the sound of a still small voice, until the full close of the play, when the king pronounced the name "Whist," (a silent "whist of the wind,") which has endured without change until the present time and will ever so continue. So elated with the game, so amused, gratified and entertained were the crowned heads of the king's court that the players were presented with a pecuniary compensation, equal to $1,000 of our money. It must be recognized that the players were the "subjects" of their king and queen, and could not be their "guests." The king and queen could not, would not, be the guests of their players; therefore, the _game_ was the "guest" of the occasion and was so recognized. The game of Euchre is of German origin, and was introduced to overcome the long, tedious and fatiguing game of Whist, and bring into use a much shorter, more jolly and more social game. The French copied from the Germans, and brought into use the same identical game under their French name of "Ecarte." The French are known to have introduced their game of "Ecarte" into the United States in the early settlement of New Orleans and the gulf coast of the present state of Louisiana. During the Crimean war French soldiers, when held intrenched, as a reserve, and a present safe keeping for future service, amused themselves by playing "Ecarte." With the present introduction of the author's game of "Guest," the historic origin of playing cards may be accepted as full and complete, by the introduction of the three only original and legitimate games known to the playing cards. All others are but substitutes of a cunning device and without merit. The game of Whist has been in use nearly four hundred years. The game of Euchre has been in use nearly one hundred years. The game of Guest has been in use nearly two years. It is already crowned as the superior game of the period, and is expressed as "perfection perfected." MORAL: The question of use and abuse? is one man must meet; the solution of and the answer to which man must be individually responsible.