Nothing of the kind, however, for presently he gets up and locks the door, then sitting down at the table, he motioned me to do the same, which I did, and in five minutes there we were playing at cards, his reverence and myself.
"I soon found that his reverence knew quite as much about card-playing as I did.

Divil a trick was there connected with cards that his reverence did not seem awake to.

As, however, we were not playing for money, this circumstance did not give me much uneasiness; so we played game after game for two hours, when his reverence, having business, told me I might go, so I took up my cards, made my obedience, and left him.

The next day I had other games with him, and so on for a very long time, still playing for nothing.

At last his reverence grew tired of playing for nothing, and proposed that we should play for money.