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BARON N., once playing at cards, was guilty of an odd trick; on which
his opponent threw him out of the window of a one-pair-of-stairs room.
The baron meeting Foote complained of this usage, and asked what he
should do? Do, says the wit, never play so high again as long as
you live.
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