Show TIIU THE MYSTERIES OP A PACK OF 01 CARPS CARDS IA A private soldier b by the name of richard ichard leo lee was waa taken before a magistrate recently for play playing 0 cards carda durino during divine bervice ser vico it appears a commanded the soldiers at church and when the parson had read rad the prayers he be took the text those who hada had a bible took it out hut but this soldier had neither kible bible nor common prayer hook book but pulling out a pack of cards card lie spread them thein before him ile he just looked at one card and then at another the sergeant of tile the company saw paw liim him and said Ki chaid put up the pard this is no place pi nce for theli never mind th that at 1 I said sai dRichard I 1 hibard Li bard when the service was over the constable took before the mayor well says the mayor what have hav you biou glit the foldier here for for playing cards in church well ell soldier what hat hao hanc you to say for much lucli sir I 1 hope very good if noti will punish you more than man mail was over ever pun isbell 1 I have been I 1 I 1 said the soldier about six weeks on the march I 1 have neither nc illier hible dible nor common prayer book I 1 have nothing noth ng but a pack of cards and ill satisfy your worship of the purity of my baten and spreading the cards before the mayor lie he began with the aco ace 4 7 when I 1 bee the llie nee ace it reminds reminda me there is ia but one god when I 1 see the deuce it il reminds mo me of father ather F and son when isco the tray it reminds tile me ot of father son and holy ghost when I 1 see the four spot it reminds me of the four evangelists that preach matthew mark luke lake and john when I 1 meet the five fire it il reminds me of the five wisse virgins that trimmed their lamps there were ivere ten tell but five were wise and five were foolish and were cast out when I 1 see the six it reminds me that in six days god made heaven and earth IV when hen I 1 see tho the seven it reminds me that on the seventh day lie I 1 from the great work he had c e dated and hallowed it when I 1 pc ahr eight it reminds remind me of the ei eight 0 ht righteous 0 persons that were saved when god destroyed the world viz noah and hip hi wife with three sons gons and their wives s when I 1 see the nine it reminds me of the nine lepers that were cleansed by our saviour there were ivere nine out of ten who never returned thanks when I 1 sc see I 1 the tent ten it reminds me of the ten tell commandments mand ments which god handed down to moses en cn tablets of stone when I 1 see the king I 1 am aln reminded of tile the kin king of heaven which is god Al mihly 0 when I 1 see the queen I 1 am reminded of the queen of sheba for she was as wise wide a woman as solomon was 11 a man she brought 0 with her fifty boys and fifty girls all dressed in boys apparel for king So solomon lonion to tell which were be boys vs and which were girls eirls kin king so solomon lomon sent for water waier f for or them to wash the girls washed to their elbows and the boys to their wrists EO en king solomon told by that well said the mayor you have given a good description of all the ca cards ads except one 11 what is that tho the knave said the mayor 1 I 1 will give your honor a description crip tion of that too if you will not be beanery angry an cry 1 I will not said the mayor maycie if you do not term me to be the knave well said the soldier the b greatest knave I 1 know is the constable that brought me here 1 I do not know said tho the ma mayor y or if he is the 0 greatest knave but I 1 know now he be is the greatest fool when I 1 count how many spots there are arc in a pack of cards I 1 find three hundred and sixty five as many days davs as there are in a year on counting the number of cards in a pack I 1 find there are fifty two the number number of weeks in a year and I 1 find four suits the number of weeks in a month I 1 find thero there are arc twelve picture cards representing the number of months in a year and on counting the tricks I 1 P und rid thirteen the number dumber of weeks in in a quai quarter ter so you see sec sir a pack of cards serves for a bible an almanac an anda a common prayer boo 12 lc C C ls S |