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CHAPTER IX. page 29

The reader will probably ask--what next will gamblers think
of betting on? But I can tell of a still more curious source of
gambling infatuation. In the _Oxford Magazine_,[93] is the
following statement:--

[93] Vol. V.

`A few days ago, as some sprigs of nobility were dining together
at a tavern, they took the following conceit into their heads
after dinner. One of them observing a maggot come from a
filbert, which seemed to be uncommonly large, attempted to get it
from his companion, who, not choosing to let it go, was
immediately offered five guineas for it, which was accepted. He
then proposed to run it against any other two maggots that could
be produced at table. Matches were accordingly made, and these
poor reptiles were the means of L500 being won and lost in a
few minutes!'

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