Definitions of Bumblepuppy.
Bumblepuppy is persisting to play Whist, either in utter ignorance of all its known principles, or in defiance of them, or both.
Hudibras has given another definition—
“A lib’ral art that costs no pains
Of study, industry, or brains.”
“Bumblepuppy was played in low public houses.”
“Here and there were Bumblepuppy grounds, a game in which the players rolled iron balls into holes marked with numbers.”—Chronicles of Newgate.
From which I infer that in the good old times this game first drove its votaries to drinking, and then landed them in a felon’s cell.
[2] In all well regulated society, your aim should be the greatest happiness of the greatest number, and that number is notoriously number one.
[3] “Do not attempt to practise until you have acquired a competent knowledge of the theory.”—Mathews, A.D. 1800.