Members From Crimson Gluch

Members From Crimson Gluch
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“I had a vague idea,” said the blunt, un-cultured man
“That this congress trick was easy when the dealing first began
I thought my little intellectual pile was all the stuff
Sufficient for a raise, or anyhow to call a bluft
And when a hand was hardly what you’d want for standing pat,
You’d draw a few amendments and just let it go at that
But I may as well confess it, though I do so to my shamo,
My feet are getting chilly and I want to quit the game

“The rules are ‘most too numerous and hard to understand
There’s far too many players chipping in to get a hand;
You think you have a winner, something picturesquely neat;
Some fellow gets a hunch au’ draws four cards and has you beat,
A little pretence now and then is nothing more than fair
But when everybody’s bluffing things go ‘way up in the air
So I’m going to pack my satchel and go back to whence I came,
My feet are getting chilly and I want to quit the game”
-Washington Star