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Bear

from The Game of Hope, c. 1799

Der Baer. A brown bear ambles past a bush, head lowered. Insets: ten of acorns, marked with the Roman X, and ten of clubs. Strength and appetite; readers came to see an older protector, or envy, in the bear, meanings the little parlor game never needed to spell out.

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