Whist or Bumblepuppy?

Excerpt from Whist or Bumblepuppy?: Ten Lectures Addressed to Children These remarks are addressed to the young, in the hope that when they arrive at man's estate they will use their best endeavors to do away with To the present generation already acquainted with "the game," I should no more presume to offer advice than I should presume to teach my lamented grandmother to suck eggs, if she were still alive. "To instruct them, no art could ever reach, No care improve them, and no wisdom teach." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.