ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT.
Curse of Scotland."—Dictionary of Phrase and ;i . Fab[e states that the two most ; plausible sue;- j pestions are these:—(l). The nine of diamonds f :. m tho game of Pope, Joan is called the Pope, : ■:' tho antichrist of tho Scotch Reformers. (2) ; In. the game of Comette, introduced by Quecn ? Mary, it is the great winning card,. ana the ' game was the curse of Scotland because' it" 1 was the ruin, of ; so many families.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 659, 9 November 1909, Page 4
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