No Card Scandals in. America.
Apropos of recent scandals in England, an American exchange says: —"We handle these things better in this country, and, to illustrate that fact, perhaps there is excase for the telling of a very ancient story. They were all at a game of • draw,'and everything seemed to be moving over to a player who bad but one eye. Then another of the players called for the drinks all anrand and a fresh pack of cards. It was his deal, and as he handled the new deck he very quietly and rather plaintively remarked: ' Thig is a game among gentlemen—a perfectly square game. Everybody knows that, and nobody but a skunk would suggest anything different. Bat I was sort of moved to remark that after this new deal with these here new cards commences, if 1 should catch anybody cheating I'd shoot hia other eye out.' That c&Be never went to the> courts. The game was placidly played to it* finish."
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Evening Star, Issue 8771, 11 March 1892, Page 2
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164No Card Scandals in. America. Evening Star, Issue 8771, 11 March 1892, Page 2
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