The same as ALL FOURS.
1838. [They were] playing Brag and Old Sledge, and all that sort of thing—that is, gambling.—R. M. Bird, ‘Peter Pilgrim,’ i. 91 (Phila.).
1841. You’ve been squat on a log, playing old sledge for pennies!—W. G. Simms, ‘The Kinsmen,’ i. 167 (Phila.).
1845. I played a pretty stiff game of old sledge, or, as he called it, ‘all fours.’—The same, ‘The Wigwam and the Cabin,’ p. 88 (Lond.). (Italics in the original.)
1850. They take, too, a quiet pleasure in an occasional half hour at ‘old sledge.’—D. G. Mitchell, ‘The Lorgnette,’ i. 102 (1852).
1856. A game at which the common people of the South were great proficients seventy years ago—“old sledge.”—W. G. Simms, ‘Eutaw,’ p. 140 (N.Y.).
