I truly think the money, though small, may have something to do with it. Somebody said to me once, 'Never play cards except for money', and I think that is excellent advice. I was a card-player in my youth, everything from Contract Bridge to an extraordinary game known as 'Bald Phantoms' where you bet reckless halfpennies on a card you could not see though everyone else could - my that would shift the threepenny bits! And did I win? Yes, by the Lord Harry, I usually did. And God bless my old Bridge Partner, Richard Hogg, who died a full Professor.
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