The late Mr. Hoare, of Bath, a very good Whist player, and without a superior at Piquet, was one of the party, and has more than once told me the story. Even Mr. Pickwick is depicted playing Whist there with Miss Bolo, Mr. Bantam, M. C., and the Dowager Lady Snuffanuff, in a passage too well known to require quotation, though Mr. Pickwick’s visit was at a date when the chief glories of Bath had departed. Hoyle also comes in for notice in the following passage in the same work: ‘I happened to come home several hours before my usual time, when I found four gentlemen of the cloth at Whist by my fire; - and my Hoyle, sir, - my best Hoyle, which cost me a guinea, lying open on the table, with a quantity of porter spilled on one of the most material leaves of the whole book. The laws adopted by these Clubs in 1864, which have by this time (1874) found their way into all Whist circles, deposed Hoyle, and are now the standard by which disputed points are determined.

The principal characters are Professor Whiston 56 (Hoyle) who gives lessons in the game of Whist; Sir Calculation Puzzle, a passionate admirer of Whist, who imagines himself a good player, yet always loses; Sharpers, Pupils of the Professor, and Cocao, Master of the Chocolate-house. SIR CAL. Not half enough, SIR JOHN - the Calculations‡ are so exact ! Who spent near half an Age in studying Whist? In the middle of the eighteenth century, What is a billiards club Whist was regularly played in fashionable society. One of the chief seats of card playing, and consequently of Whist playing, during the eighteenth century, was Bath. The "Short Treatise" appeared just in the nick 61 of time when Whist was rising in repute, and when card playing was the rage. As if Life’s Business centred in a Card? This last statement, however, 55 requires verification; at all events, Hoyle continued for years to sign every copy personally, as the proprietor of the copyright. However, the problems associated with it are inevitable.

There are also spa facilities with Men and Women steam sauna facilities. SIR CAL. O Gad, my Lord, there never was so excellent a Book printed. SIR CAL. O Gad, No, SIR JOHN - Never any thing was fairer, nor was ever any thing so critical. "SIR JOHN. ’Twas by some such laudable Practices, I suppose, that you suffered in your last Affair with LURCHUM. SIR JOHN MEDIUM. Ha ! While stationed in India, an army officer named Sir Neville Chamberlain experimented on his Billiards table and invented snookers. The way in which Sir Calculation introduces Hoyle’s Calculations of Chances is very amusing. A Man that discovers the Secrets of any Profession deserves to be sacrificed, and I would be the first, LURCHUM, to cut the Professor’s Throat for what he has done, but that I think I have pretty well defeated the malevolent Effect of his fine spun Calculations. "Who will believe that Man could e’er exist. LURCH. But if this damn’d Book of the Professor’s answers, as he pretends, to put Players more upon a Par, what will avail our superior Skill in the Game?

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