We'll play for double-eagles,' and so they did, and he won.
'Haven't you a tract of sugar-canes ?' says he.

'Money's naugh.

Let us play for land!' and he won the sugar-canes.

'That girl, that red-lipped Jeanne of thine, that black eye in the Street of Flowers--I'll play for her! Deal the cards!' But he never won the girl, and he lost the sugar-canes and the gold." "A man walks forward, or he walks backward.

There's no standing still in this world or the next.