Of afternoons and evenings they played an infinitesimal game of draw poker.
"John," my answer was, "I don't dare to do so.

I know that I shall fall in love with General Grant.

We are living in rough times--particularly in rough party times.

We have a rough presidential campaign ahead of us.
If I go down to the seashore and go in swimming and play penny-ante with General Grant I shall not be able to do my duty." It was thus that after the general had gone out of office and made the famous journey round the world, and had come to visit relatives in Kentucky, that he accepted a dinner invitation from me, and I had a number of his friends to meet him.
Among these were Dr.Richardson, his early schoolmaster when the Grant family lived at Maysville, and Walter Haldeman, my business partner, a Maysville boy, who had been his schoolmate at the Richardson Academy, and General Cerro Gordo Williams, then one of Kentucky's Senators in Congress, and erst his comrade and chum when both were lieutenants in the Mexican War.

The bars were down, the windows were shut and there was no end of hearty hilarity.