I beg you not to be startled: but if you are, then test the truth of my
theory by playing to-night at the game called ?Russian Scandal;? in which
a story, repeated in secret by one player to the other, comes out at the
end of the game, owing to the inaccurate and?forgive me if I say
it?uneducated brains through which it has passed, utterly unlike its
original; not only ludicrously maimed and distorted, but often with themost fantastic