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come out often.

Towards the close, just before the prince of Wales went away he asked Colonel Cody if he had ever played before four kings before, Cody replied with a courtly bow to the group "I have, your royal highness, but I never held such a royal flush as this against four kings." The prince asked his question in all seriousness, but he was delighted with Colonel Cody's ready answer and laughed very loudly. He then turned around and explained all the complicated bearings of this answer of Colonel Cody to the royalties, who- poor, benighted- do not understand the American game of poker.