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Show Moltke's Idea of Whist. A German magazine has just pub-Hjhed pub-Hjhed tho subjoined anecdoto about Moltko: "Did you, your oxcolleney, play whist whon you wero In Franco?" askcdN Hcrr vo.. Bonnlgsen cJ tho great battlo thinker one evening even-ing over a rubber. "Every day whon it was posslblo," replied Moltko. "We played half-farthing points, so that at worst tho players could not loso moro tnan a Billing." Ono day Count Bo-I'ntsy Bo-I'ntsy was his partner. "Why, my dear count, did you play spades?" cald Moltko, In a sharp and serious ono. "I had an idea, your oxcolleney, rnat you wanted spades." "But my dear count, ono doos not play whist according to Ideas, but according to rule," replied tho Held marshal, shaking shak-ing his head. |