CoiOffEL Edgeworth, who is mi inveterate gambler, having lost all his ready cihli at t.he card table, borrowed his wife's • iumoud earrings, and, staking them, hud a I urn of mcA, and rose a winner in the end, whereupon he solemnly vowed never to touch cards or dico again. And yef, before the week was our, he was pulling straws from a rick and belling upon which sho;.iH prove tlv 1 ng--:f. ; keeping as strictly to the later prowiine ac the hard drinker who vowed to eschew intoxicating fluids ns long as he had tn hair on his heal, a* d an h>ur afterwards eix-rprd from the barber's shop wiih a, smooth, shavun poll, and then got tipsy with a clear onscienco.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3948, 24 August 1881, Page 3
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122Untitled Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3948, 24 August 1881, Page 3
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