Show I TR CARD TABLE If It the th full fun story of the card table uld be written it would surely Burely be the most startling revelation ef of C human Iranian cu ever published and almost every te ige of it would be marked by Some SOllIe in indent indent dent jent which would outstrip fiction Action a London publication t r When Louis Louts XV YV was at the card can ta the fascination of oC the game made madem m absolutely dead to alt all externals d e even en to decency and humanity On One e 1 occasion when he was playing pl for foray ay avy stakes one of his opponents by excitement collapsed in chair in a fit of apoplexy His affected to ignore the incident otil til some one exclaimed M de is ill III Ill III retorted the theP ther ngn r P casting a careless glance at the sicken HIken man he be ir 18 dead Take him hima a ay spades are trumps gentlemen Equally weird is 18 a story Goldsmith Is When the clergyman arrived to pare a lady parishioner parl who had a aIon sion Ion for gambling for her approach g death the lady after listening for hort short time to hIS hib exhortation ex timed enough Now let us use ve e a game of o cards To humor her parson pan on consented to play The dying man won all hill h money and had just sted playing for her funeral fee vet h n 1 she fell back and expired Played Till Death Called passion for gambling was wast strong t ving even in death that he played cr to bi the very er end when he lie was so 10 that they the had to be held for him and the merry monarch spent his last Sunda on earth playing at basset round a large table with his great groot cour courtiers courtiers courtiers tiers and other dissolute dl persons and with a bank baRk of at least 2000 before him The curious fascination cards possess I Ifor for their devotees is illustrated by the following story of Lord Granville at atthe atthe atthe the time English ambassador to France One afternoon when he was about to return to Paris he repaired to Grahams to have a farewell game of I whist ordering his hili carriage to be at atthe atthe atthe I the door at 4 clock o When it arrived he was wy too deep in the game to be dis disturbed disturbed At 10 lie h e a sent to say that he was u about ready r dy and that the horses had bad better be changed eh Six hours later the same message was sent out and twice tice more the waiting horses were changed before he consented to leave the table after losing teeing I IAn iAn An equally remarkable story tor is told of or I Georga Georg Payne Pane the great t turf plunger of or seventy se ty years ago On one occasion he sat t down at Glimmers hotel to play playcards playcards cards with Lord Londesborough Hour after hour passed the game same proceeded all aU through the night and bug after day da dawned and it was not until an urgent message came to tell Lord Lom Al Albert Albert bert that his bride was waiting for him himat himat himat at the attar altar of St Georges G Hanover square that the cards were at t last flung down It was Lord Alberts wed wedding wedding ding day and He lie net met t his bride ride ide MM poorer than t n when hen he JIe left eft her ber previous prey sous day dayA A Generous Winner One of the nr m mast romantic of gambling ambling tories stories is told toW by Mr Ir of or ofa ora ofa a plainly dressed stranger who one oner on took his seat at a faro fern table an and l after aCter an extraordinary run of ef luck Juck succeeded in breaking the bank Heavens Heave s ex exclaimed exclaimed exclaimed claimed an old infirm Austrian officer o of ker icer who H ho had sat s t next to th the stranger the twentieth part of your Our gains would make me the happiest man in Inthe the world You shall have it then an answered answered answered the stranger as be he left Jett the room A servant erv t speedily returned and pre presented pl presented the officer with tile the the twentieth tw part of the bank adding My master sir requires no answer The e ful stranger was has soon discovered to be beno beno no other than the king of in to 9 disguise That Bali all gamblers are not ungenerous ous Otis Is proved by the following story j I j I t tell M by b Horace Walpole in one or of his letters Mr Ir an Irish gamester I had won from young Mr Har Harvey Harve Harvey vey ve of Chigwell Just started from a midshipman into an estate by b his eldest brothers death Mr said aId I You can never neer pay PRY me i 1 can said aid the th youth My estate will III sell for the debt No Xo said Mr I will win ten thousand and you snail shall throw for the odd ninety thousand They did and Harvey Haney won Ron The most costly game rne of ot cards canis on record was aas u probably that In which the late George Gl orge McCulloch chairman of the Broken Hill Proprietary company took part A l te of seven sevan nn nue blut l been formed to finance the famous Broken Hil un silver mine One day sitting in a shanty at the foot of or the hill MCCulloch offered ered a fourteenth share in the mine to a young man mara named Cox for tOO Cox tt hid td Cl and after haggling it was as decided to settle the dispute by a game of eucHre If Cox proved the winner lee h It was to UJ have the e share for JUO 12 if he lost he was to pay pa I 10 for it I l won woo and for the absurd ab absurd absurd surd sum of or of became owner owner of the share sinare which a few years Int r a valued d at 1 |