Although they aspired, like all natural-born gamblers, to taking a flutter and beating that system (they all loved the idea of tips, of course), they were sufficiently cynical to know it's a mug's game and that it was largely bound to fail.

It is remarkable , that in the leading case cited as the foundation of the whole doctrine

she had loosened her hair and changed into the curtal frock of sunbright cotton that he was so fond of and had so ardently yearned to soil in the so recent past.

Sad Clotho held the rocke, the whiles the thrid By griefly Lachesis was spun with paine