THE COBRA CAPELLA
... We had been playing all the evening at whist. Our stake bad been gold mrohur points, and twenty on the rubber. Maxey, who is always lucky, bad won five consecutive bumpers, which lent a self-satisfied smile to his countenance, and made us, the losers, look anything but pleased, when be suddenly cbanged countenance, and hesitated to play; this the more surprised us, since be was one who seldom ...