3-5-8 for the following: This variation of a variation plays 9-5-2 with the following changes: This variation was played in the 70s and 80s at University High School in Urbana, Ill. Play is as before with each aiming for 9, 5 and 3 respectively, except: 3-5-8 3-5-8, also known as Sergeant Major for its popularity among members of Britain's Royal Air Force, is a trick-taking card game for 3 players, using a standard 52 card deck. 3-5-8 may be played as a gambling game, or not, and there are many variations with names like "8-5-3" and "9-5-2" played throughout the world.
The Black Riders and Other Lines it may strike in. Who wants a meal of horseradish?" Crane himself thought "The Black Riders" a superior work to his more famous novel "The Red Badge of Courage". As he wrote, "the former is the more ambitious effort. In it, I am to give my ideas of life as a whole, so far as I know it, and the latter is a mere episode,—an amplification". The Black Riders and Other Lines The Black Riders and Other Lines is a book of poetry written by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). It was first published in 1895 by Copeland & Day.