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Never play with friends.

Never ante till they make you.

When you draw for a flush tell everybody about it so they will not be surprised if you get it.

When you unexpectedly pick up three aces look intensely indifferent and hum a popular air. This gives the impression that you have a poor hand.

Persons troubled with frigid pedal extremities should carry foot warmers with them.

Don't be an historian in the game by devoting all your conversation to hands that are dead and gone.

Hold your cards so everybody can see your hand. It helps the other players in knowing how to bet.

No man plays his hand right unless he wins. "A little house well filled, a little field well" tilled, and a little wife well willed are great riches. Facts and four flushes are stubborn things.

A V Calling for a Sight 1 Don't be apprehensive for fear they will all not come in. They'll find out soon enough that you think you have a good hand.

In shuffling the cards always drop a few on the floor. This affords an opportunity for somebody to say: "Get a Basket," and materially adds to the enjoyment of the entire party. When called always show your hand in installments.

Don't say: "I have three Jacks." Say: "I have a pair of Jacks-and another one." This is considered smart and has the effect of softening the blow to the loser.

Tell me how a man plays poker, and I will tell you what he is.

A loser has bad luck; a winner good judgment.

The chap who says he does not play to win will lie about other things, too.

SMOKE QUOTES Some sigh for this and that- My wishes don't go far- The world may wag at will So I have my cigar.

The man who smokes thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

For thy sake, tobacco, I Would do anything but die.

SMOKE QUOTES Oh, the vagrant hour In the fragrant bower, How I love you, my sweet coquette.

Oh, the kiss that burns And the bliss that yearns, When I puff you-my cigarette.

To smoke a cigar through a mouthpiece is equivalent to kissing a lady through a respirator.

My Lady Nicotine Nor love of woman, nor hate of man Can mar the joy this goddess brings; While she is here to give me cheer I would not change my state with kings. "If there be a third anodyne it is to smoke good tobacco well, and watch the setting of the moon; and if this should only be over the sea, the result is irresistible."-R. D. Blackmore in Lorna Doone.

I would I were a cigarette Between my Lady's lithe, sad lips, Where Death like Love, divinely set With exquisite sighs and sips Feeds and is fed. 2 A Straight KE SMOK :

QUOTES Pipes are the massive, structural blocks; Cigars-fair palace towers; But cigarettes are the turrets glow Of Fancy's castled hours.

Thou through such a mist dost show us That our best friends do not know us.

To Willie.

Willie was a gentle lad.

General regrets Were felt when Willie one day took To smoking cigarettes.

Willie kept on puffing Harder every day.

Sister took the coupons and She put them all away.

Willie, dear, has left us; 'Twas a mournful shock, Sister cashed the coupons in And got a mantel clock.

Now we gather round it As the moments fly; It is something lovely to Remember Willie by. "EATS"