A CLEAR fire, a    ; ted le (no to ions, loved a good game at o take a    oo make up a rubber:    to    t a card-table, but are indifferent o take it up and lay anotriflers are table. One of t. Of suc may be said, t t play at cards, but only play at playing at them.

        Battle    breed. Sested t and soul; and , save upon a striking emergency,     table ner, a determined enemy. Sook, and gave, no cessions. Sed favours. S over iing tmost forfeiture. S a good fig and t. S ;like a dancer." Se bolt uprigo see ours. All people itions: and I    s .

        I never in my life -- and I knele many of t years of it -- sa    o play: or snuff a dle in t, till it , miscellaneous versation during its process. As sically observed, cards aste iury te    tleman of a literary turn, o take a     ter serious studies, in recreations of t kind! S o ion, to    lig o to do, -- and s. S erwards -- over a book.

        Pope e ed game of Ombre in t poem; and to explain to me    agreed    points it o differ from, tradrille. rations e and poignant; and I ance of to Mr. Bo I suppose too late to be ied among es upon t author.

        Quadrille, sen told me,    eem. to allure young persons. tainty and quick sing of partners -- a tancy of ure of Spadille -- absurd as sly observed, in tocracy of y, so taking to ttras of a Sans Prendre Vole, -- to triumpainly notingencies of ivation to tic. But    , like quadrille, a feast of snate to form rooted friendso cultivate steady enmities. Sarted, capricious, and ever fluctuating alliances of tty eps of ttle Italian states, depicted by Macually cures and exions; bitter foe, to-day, sugared darlings to-morroc t o teady, deep-rooted, rational, antipat Frens.

        A grave simplicity , like t most irrational of all pleas t a reasonable being    set in -- t and one sue of    refereo tensions of to be a solecism; as pitiful an ambition at cards as alliteration is in auty, and looked deeper ts o distinguis ry in red jackets, t never o be marso take t    is; and, in my mind,    it of some appendages, e of y, may be venially, and even endably allourn of t one suit alrumps ? inguis it? --

        "But ty. Man is not a creature of pure reason --    fully appealed to. e see it in Roman Catries, o . -- You, yourself, ty colle of paintings -- but fess to me, ers in te-room, you ever felt your bosom glo delig all parable to t you    in your poo experience most evenings over a ment of t cards? -- tty antic s, like riump -- trasting deadly-killing sables -- ty of spades -- Pam in all his glory! --

        "All t be dispensed eboard, t go on very ure-less. But ty of cards inguisripped of all t is imaginative in t degee intambling. -- Imagine a dull deal board, or drum o spread tead of t nice verdant carpet (o natures), fittest arena for tly batants to play t jousts and turneys in ! -- Excely-turned ivory markers -- , unscious of ting true application as test Ep turned out ttle stle bits of leators money) or ce!" -

        to ion of my arguments oopic t evening, I ed for t Sienna marble, er Plumer,    h.

        t ( value) I    o fess a trutly taken    ially vulgar game, I ing ial to it. Sily bring o pronounce "go " -- or "ts a go." S an ungrammatical game. teased o forfeit a rubber (a five dollar stake), because s take advantage of turn-up kremely genteel in t of self-denial. Saratle lewoman born.

        Piquet s at try of terms -- suc -- t) of affectation. But games for tly cared for. Se, or square. S cards are : oo palpable. By t is too close a figators, it is not muctered. No looker on    be ied, except for a bet, and t is a mere affair of money;    for your luck sympatically, or for your play. -- till    every man, as in cribbage,    league or alliance; or a rotation of petty and tradictory is, a succession of less leagues, and not mufras of tradrille. -- But in square games (s    is possible to be attained in card-playing is aplisives of profit o every species -- tter    be but very imperfectly enjoyed in tator is only feebly a participator. But ties in ators and principals too. tre to t ed. inence.    abrality or some i beyond its sproke of skill or fortune, not because a cold -- or even an ied bystander , but because your partner sympatingency. You riumped. tified; aking off to tter reciled, to one in t close butcile feeling is iplying tomed to defend e pastime.

        No i could ever prevail upon o play at any game, o tion, for y of     is obvious, t ot be glory.    rational cause of exultation could it give to a man to turn up size ace a imes togetators, tery of a ickets    one fortunate number -- and ure, except stupid , could it gratify to gain t number as many times successively,    a prize ? -- ture of c    played for money. S fooliss,    under suces. Games of pure skill tle to ake, tem of over-reag of one mans , -- ion -- faculty rat anot at a revieless. -- S ceive a game ing tely infusion of e. t c irring in tre, udes of Castles, and Knigly) irely misplaced and senseless. tests    in no instance ally    form and colour. A pencil and dry slate (so say) ants.

        tainst cards, as nurturing tort, t man is a gaming animal.    -- alrying to get tter in somet t cards: t cards are a temporary illusion; in trut play at being mig stake, yet, during tily ed as take is cro of dream-fig battling, and little bloodsy means for disproportioned ends; quite as diverting, and a great deal more innoxious, t esteeming to be such.-

        it defereo t on tters, I ts in my life,    in t spirits, I sometimes call for t piquet for love    -- Bridget Elia.

        I grant t; but ooto put up ion,

        ture, I am vinced, as sick w. -

        I grant it is not t style of man -- I deprecate ttle -- s, alas! to whom I should apologise.

        At sucimes, terms o, e in as someto get a tierce or a quatorze, to an inferior i. those shadows of winning amuse me.

        t last game I    cousin (I capotted ell t miged for ever, t not    to go on in t idle folly for ever. t o prepare tle lenitive to my foot, o apply after t muc s and I should be ever playing.
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