Little games of cards wore played daily by all save myself; I used to look on occasionally but never learned the games.
One of the Russian games at cards is called poker, and is not much unlike that seductive amusement so familiar to the United States.
Whence it came I could not ascertain, but it was probably taken there by some enterprising American.

Some years ago a western actor who was able to play Hamlet, Richelieu, Richard III., Claude Melnotte, and draw-poker, made his way to Australia, where he delighted the natives with his dramatic genius.

But though he drew crowded houses his cash box was empty, as the treasurer stole the most of the receipts.

He did not discharge him as there was little prospect of finding a better man in that country; but he taught him draw-poker, borrowed five dollars to start the game, and then every morning won from the treasurer the money taken at the door on the previous night.
As we approached the Ousuree there was a superior magnificence in the forest.

The trees on the southern bank grew to an enormous size in comparison, with those lower down the river.