AMUSING.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVI, Issue 994, 28 November 1883, Page 5

AMUSING.

Major C— — is exceedingly fond of the game of whist. On one occasion he was speaking of the way in which adverse luck will sometimes pursue a man, and remarked that he once played a whole season at the White Sulphur Springs, and never held a trump. Some one in the company suggested that that was impossible, because he must have held at least one trump every time he dealt the cards. But the major replied, " Every time I dealt, it was a misdeal."

He illustrated the same idea in another way. He said he was once in a party where the proposition was made to throw dice for drinks and cigars. He threw several times, and every time the dice came out ace, duce. He was vexed and threw the dice with all his might against the wall of the room. "When he went to pick them up from the floor he was confronted with the same one and two spots. He went to tbe window and pitched them as far as he could into the yard. The next day he felt like tryinsr bis luck again, and not having another pair of dice, he went into the yard to hunt them up. Stooping down and peering closely into the grass, bis eyes finally rested on the ace. He was so mad that he made a mental resolve that if the other die was found with the duce up he would awaliow them. ITe found it at last, and it was the duce. He swallowed them both forthwith. Five minutes later he became dreadfully alarmed at what might be the consequence of his rash act, and took a strong emetic. The dice were soon deposited on the grass again. " And as sure as you are alive," said the major, " there lay the same old ace, duce,"