Then I lost my money, and said I would play no more, and would keep what I had in my pocket.

Then I went from the noise in the toss-ring for half an hour, when I saw another man, and he asked me, 'What luck ?' and I replied, 'No luck; but I've a little left yet.' So I tossed with him and lost all my things--my coat, my shirt, and all, except my breeches.

Then I went home with nothing but my breeches on--I borrowed a coat of my sister's boy.
"And when my wife saw me half-naked, she _says_, 'Where are your clothes ?' and I told her I had been fighting.

But she said, 'Why, you have not your stockings on; you didn't fight your stockings off!' 'No,' I said; 'I drew them off.' (The man played me with a two-headed halfpenny.) "But in the morning when the man came to take away the dog (for I had lost that too), I felt worse than when I lost all the other things.

And my poor wife cried again, for she had no child.