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Coffin

from The Game of Hope, c. 1799

Der Sarg. A coffin on a low plinth, seen slightly from above, its lid edged in red. Insets: nine of bells and nine of diamonds. Endings, illness, loss; in the race game a square best avoided, and the pack's plainest reminder that the parlor game trafficked in the same luck and dread as the oracle it became.

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