Before its wide success let Heliogabalus turn pale.
“We drink, and turn away—we care not where!
Fuzzled, and drunk with porter, till the head
Reels with its fullness. There, for ever there,
Stand thou in triumph, Poker, strong and red!
We are thy captives, and thine ardor share.
Away! there need no words, no terms precise,
To say in loving accents, Flip-cup, thou art nice!”
To this class of Home Amusements belongs also the famous game of “Twenty Questions,” which was played so much at one time by the Cambridge professors that they declared that any subject should be reached in ten questions. The proper formula for this very intellectual game is this: Two parties are formed, the questioners and the answerers, the first having the privilege, after the word has been chosen, to inquire—