Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-12
A Very Quiet Game.


There are some folks who think It
awful wicked for husband and wife to
sit down together of an evening and
play cards, while others can't see where
the harm comes in.
" Why" said the Colonel a few days
ago, when the subject of card-playing
was under discussion, does any one
pretend that my wife and can't play
few games of euchre without disputing
and arguing and getting mad over itp
Loafers can't, perhaps, but we could
play for a thousand years and never
have n word--yes, we could"
The others shook their heads in du-
bious way, and the nettled Colonel
walked straight to a stationer's and
bought the incest pack he could find.
That evening, when his wife was ready
to sit down to her fancy work, he pro-
duced the cards and said:
"May, was told to-day that you and
/ couldn't play cards without disputing
and getting into row. Darling, draw
up here"
Dearest, we will not have word Of
put away her work.
The Colonel shufied away and dealt
and turned up heart.
81 order it up" she observed, as she
| looked over her cards.
al was going to take it up anyhow" "
| growled the Colonel, as his chin fell, all
! his other cards being black.
"Play to that, she said, as she put
down the joker"
"Who ever heard of anybody leading
out in trumpsr he exclaimed. Why
don't you lead out with an acePn
O, can play this hand"
"You can, ehP Well, I'll make it
the sickest play you ever saw! Hal
took all the tricks, eh? Well, 1 thought
I'd encourage you a little. Give me
the cards--it's my deal"
"You dealt before"
"No, didn'tW
"Why, yes you did! We have only
played one hand"
Well, 90 ahead and deal all the
time if YOU want to I'll make two
off your deal anyhow. What's trump
She turned up club. He had only
the nine-spot, but he scratched his
head, puckered his mouth and seemed
to want to order it up. The bluff didn't
work. She took itup, and he led an acc
of hearts.
"No hearts, eh p he shouted, as shc
trumped it. Refusing suit is a regu
lar loafer's trick I'll keep an eye OF
. you Yes, take it-and that-and tina
and all of 'em It's mighty quee
where you got all those trumps
Stocked the cards on me, did youP"
"Now, dear, ] played as fair a
could be, and made two, and if l max
one on your deal Z skunk you"
, I'D like to see you make one on m,
dealp' he puffed. "rve been foolini
| along to encourage you, but now Tn
going to beat you out of sight. Dia
J mOnds are trumps."
She passed and he took it up on tw
small trumps. He took the first trick
she the next two, he the fourth, an
when he put out his last trump she ha
the joker.
Skunked skunked % she e1
claimed, as she clapped her hands j
T. glee. ....
l e You didn't follow suit -
: ooh, yes ! did,
t "Ikuow better! Yourefused spades!
"But hadn't any"
- lou naun I, enF ny uluu 9O
l have anyP l never saw hand yet witt
9 out at least one spade in it ~
: "Why, husband, know how to pla
5 cards"
a "And don't IP Wasn't 1 playin
euchre when you were learning
: walk l say you stocked the cards o
: me ~
"No, didn't you are apoor playe
: you don't know how to lead ~
e "I-I--why, maybe I'm a foo
! and myybe don't know anything, an
!. so you can play alone and have a
q trumps every time ~ .y..I
I He pushed back, grabbed his pape
0 wheeled around to the gas, and it wa
nearly thirty-six hours before he smile
$ again. Nevertheless, no one else eve
e had dispute over cards.-DetroH Fir,
=; Press.