The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 74
tacles and bcdy. In my next and following articles I purpose treating of the Aqua-rium from the simplest andmost inexpensive form up tothe most costly, and giving thefullest and best instructionsfor keeping the occupants inhealth. The anemone justmentioned shows what can bedone in this way—a… … HE origin of whist, like that of play-ing cards, is involved in obscurity.It is quite certain, however, that agame of cards, played by two, three,or four persons, under the varioustitles of Euff and Honours,Slam, Wisk and Whist, andSwabbers, and bearing a certainamount of family resemblance to…
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