Life — May 10, 1883 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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ANTICIPATION. Younc Sympkins reins his steed with care And strikes an ambling pace ; Full bright the day ; full sweet the air, Secluded is the place. He tries his bow,—would sHE were there To see his tranquil grace ! A smile his face serenely stirs ; He dreams of one adorning her's. REALIZATION. SHE comes; the joyous smile is there; Her father’s coming too. Full bright the day, full sweet the air; The sky's a perfect blue. He tries his bow—so does his mare. As thoroughbreds will do. An unforeseen event occurred, POKER AMONG THE POETS. ILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT is said to have been a student of draw-poker, but there is no evidence to prove it—Boston Post. Isn't there? In Thanatopsis he says: “Thou shalt lie down with kings !” Shakespeare played poker too. He makes Polonius say: “ Beware of entrance into a [jack-pot], but being in, bear’t that the opposed may beware of thee.” Also says Hamdet, probably having raised the pot on fourclubs and a heart—‘‘Now might I do it pat.” Then see the following : “T cannot draw."—Xing Lear, v., 3. “This business will raise us all.""— Winter's Tale, iv.,4. “T would give all my fame fora pot.”—Henry V., tii, 2 “Let him pass peaceably."—2 Henry V/., 3. 4 “You apprehend passing shrewdly."—AMuch Ado, n draw as soon asany other man."—Romeo and My 4s King John had evidently run up against a flush with threes, for he says: “It is the curse of kings !"— King John, vi., 2 Henry VI. likewise must have had a dismal exper- ience when he was forced to call the dealer—“ Thou setter up and plucker down of kings."—3 Henry V/., Poor Sympkins quite forgot—and spurred. wt, 3. Then we have several hints of the hands held in those grand old days: i “T have a bobtail."—King Lear, iit., 6. “These begging Jacks.’"—Merchant of Venice, tit., 4. “We see these things effected to the full,”"—2 Henry VI, t, 2, “Straight let us seek."—King John, v., 7. “PUZNISS IS PUZNISS!” HE parents of an about-to-be bride, hearing with dismay that it was fast becoming the fashion to send floral gifts instead of the more substantial things of this world to the happy couple, worded the wedding invitations as follows : Mr. and Mrs. PoorMAN Request your presents At the marriage of their. daughter MARIGOLD to Mr. JOHN FULLPURSE, Monday afternoon, April Ninth, At half-past two o'clock, 41144 Silver Street, Bonanzaville. Friends will kindly omit Flowers. comicbooks.com