Here your partner cainiot tell whether your card is an
original or an echoing one; but he is, at all events,
informed that you have numerical strength in trumps.
The advantages of the echo are manifold. Your
partner being strong in trumps may hesitate to take
a force, but your echo enables him to do so without
fear, and to persevere with the tiiimp lead. Or, jour
partner may be in doubt after the second round of
tmmps as to the policy of playing a third. But if
he can count two more trumps in your hand he will
be directed. Thus : eight are out, your partner has
three more: you have echoed. He will know that the
other two are in your hand, and will not draw two for
none, as, without the echo, he might do.
The* negative advantage of the echo should not be
overlooked. Thus : to take the same case of eight
trumps being out, and the leader with three more
trumps. You (his partner) have had the chance of
sounding an echo, but have not done so. The leader
knows that you have not two of the remaining trumps,
and he will regulate his game accordingly.
For illustrations of these remai'ks, see Hands
XXXIV and XXXV.
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